Abstract
Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is a systematic multimodal perioperative care
aimed at reducing the immense surgical stress of the patient and thereby facilitating
early recovery. This is basically a multidiscipline, multimodal integrated approach
in patient care and it integrates the basic knowledge in a more streamlined fashion,
which ultimately improves the outcome of surgery. This article reviews the various
aspects of ERAS, and its implementation in neurosurgical practice as some concepts
of ERAS may not be applicable in the setting of neurosurgery.
Keywords
Craniotomy - enhanced recovery after surgery - neuroanaesthesia - neurosurgery - spine