A four-year initiative found that a standardized enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol was associated with a host of improved outcomes after Whipple pancreaticoduodenectomy, including reductions in hospital length of stay (LOS), readmission rates, reoperations and surgical site infections/pancreatic leaks.
“We first became interested in enhanced recovery protocols in early 2015,” said Nazareth Asorian, DO, the medical director and surgeon advisor of quality and safety at