A short YouTube interview (Robert Whitfield MD and Travis) describing the use of ERAS (Enhanced/Early Recovery After Surgery) protocols to reduce postoperative pain, nausea, and complications in a sensitive outpatient population. They emphasize adapting techniques used in high-acuity settings (trauma, cardiac centers) for outpatient care, prioritizing multimodal analgesia to minimize narcotics, aggressive perioperative hydration, and fine-tuning pre- and post-op processes.
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And Travis, so what does it mean when we say we're going to provide the best eras or some kind of way to diminish postoperative pain in my extremely sensitive patient population now?
What does it mean to, to deliver that highest level of care to, to your patients and minimize, you know, any as many of the complications and issues that can arise after surgery, from pain to nausea, all of those things. It really, our focus has shifted to this early recovery after surgery or ERAs protocol. And it's worked extremely well in your patient population. And one thing we've done as an anesthesia group is we've taken all of these providers from level one trauma centers, heart hospitals, doing big cases at the hospitals on very, very sick patients, and taken these very detail oriented approaches to solving very complex issues that arise in sick patient populations. And then we've brought those techniques into the outpatient surgery world. And now we can use those with your patients and those center around minimizing narcotics, decreasing postoperative nausea and vomiting, decreasing pain through multimodal pathways. And we can talk more about that here in just a few minutes. Basically meaning that we're using a bunch of different medications to stop and block pain at the site and systemically rather than just relying on a bunch of narcotic medications making you sleepy and not feel good and then sending you home afterwards. So we put a huge emphasis on hydration pre and post op. We've kind of done every, we've fine tuned every, you know, facet of the surgical experience and that the pre op and post op surgical experience we possibly could.
