NEW ORLEANS—Adaptation of an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program allowed eligible patients to receive their hip and knee replacements without spending the night in the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The changes were so successful that they have been implemented permanently at Stony Brook Medicine, in New York, according to a quality improvement study presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
In 2019, Stony Brook Medicine