How to Properly Understand Enhanced Recovery After Surgery?

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) has become a hot issue around the world (Lau, & Chamberlain, 2016). It aims to accelerate patients' recovery after surgery and prioritize the cost-effectiveness of health care. Generally, multiple disciplinary work team is of crucial importance to make an optimized protocol in detail. Also, it is accordance with the top principle of precision medicine in clinical practice. However, micro invasive surgery and shortening length of stay in the hospital have been excessive emphasized or over evaluated as a foremost target to seek for, which is pushing some patients into the risk of worsening outcomes. Some of the patients have to face re-admission due to serious postoperative complications or insufficient nutrition due to discharge ahead. Hence, it's time to correct the misunderstanding of ERAS and rethought about it. Obviously, the right understanding of ERAS is of the essence to benefit both of surgeons and patients.