Breaking the Fast: A Nutritional Intervention to Enhance Surgical Outcome

THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM is rapidly transforming to enhance patient care delivery, requiring innovation and change throughout health care organizations. Transformation requires collaboration among a multidisciplinary team to translate evidence-based interventions into practice. Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) is a  health care innovation that provides state-of-the-art interventions with an overarching goal of improving surgical patient outcomes. ERAS literature challenges traditional “nothing by mouth after midnight” strategies and supports routine preoperative and postoperative nutritional enhancement.
Source: Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: EBP: Evidence to Practice Source Type: research