Cardiac Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society Guideline Recommendations for Perioperative Care in Cardiac Surgery (2019)

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a care improvement initiative to decrease surgical complications, improve clinical outcomes, and enable a patient's earlier return to normal activities. This guideline presents recommendations for the optimal perioperative management of patients undergoing cardiac surgery and consists of 22 recommendations divided among the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of recovery.