Society guideline links: Enhanced recovery after surgery

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Postoperative nausea and vomiting".)

International

●Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society (ERAS Society): Guidelines

●Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Cardiac Society (ERAS Cardiac Society), ERAS International Society, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS): Joint consensus statement on perioperative care in cardiac surgery (2024)

●American Society for Enhanced Recovery (ASER) and Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI): Joint consensus statement on postoperative delirium prevention (2020)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on the role of neuromonitoring in perioperative outcomes – Cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy (2020)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on the role of neuromonitoring in perioperative outcomes – Electroencephalography (2020)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on perioperative management of patients on preoperative opioid therapy (2019)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on perioperative opioid minimization in opioid-naïve patients (2019)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on nutrition screening and therapy within a surgical enhanced recovery pathway (2018)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on patient-reported outcomes in an enhanced recovery pathway (2018)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on postoperative gastrointestinal dysfunction within an enhanced recovery pathway for elective colorectal surgery (2018)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on optimal analgesia within an enhanced recovery pathway for colorectal surgery – Part 1: From the preoperative period to PACU (2017)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on optimal analgesia within an enhanced recovery pathway for colorectal surgery – Part 2: From PACU to the transition home (2017)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on prevention of postoperative infection within an enhanced recovery pathway for elective colorectal surgery (2017)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on perioperative fluid management within an enhanced recovery pathway for colorectal surgery (2016)

●Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) for gastrointestinal surgery, part 2: Consensus statement for anaesthesia practice (2016)

Canada

●Canadian consensus statement: Enhanced recovery after surgery in bariatric surgery (2020)

●Best Practice in Surgery (BPS): Clinical practice guideline on enhanced recovery after surgery – ERAS for all (2017)

●BPS: Clinical practice guideline on enhanced recovery after surgery protocol for patients undergoing pancreatic surgery (2017)

●BPS: Clinical practice guideline on perioperative care of patients with an ostomy (2016)

United States

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on perioperative pathways – Enhanced recovery after surgery (2018, reaffirmed 2024)

●Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Cardiac Society, ERAS International Society, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS): Joint consensus statement on perioperative care in cardiac surgery (2024)

●European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (EAES)/Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES): Evidence-based recommendations and expert consensus on optimization of perioperative care in older adults (2024)

●American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS) and SAGES: Clinical practice guidelines for enhanced recovery after colon and rectal surgery (2023)

●American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS): Consensus document on a comprehensive perioperative approach to enhanced recovery after pediatric cardiac surgery (2021)

●Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP): Consensus statement and recommendations for enhanced recovery after cesarean (2021)

●American Society for Enhanced Recovery (ASER) and Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI): Joint consensus statement on postoperative delirium prevention (2020)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on the role of neuromonitoring in perioperative outcomes – Cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy (2020)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on the role of neuromonitoring in perioperative outcomes – Electroencephalography (2020)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on perioperative management of patients on preoperative opioid therapy (2019)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on perioperative opioid minimization in opioid-naïve patients (2019)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on nutrition screening and therapy within a surgical enhanced recovery pathway (2018)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on patient-reported outcomes in an enhanced recovery pathway (2018)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on postoperative gastrointestinal dysfunction within an enhanced recovery pathway for elective colorectal surgery (2018)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on optimal analgesia within an enhanced recovery pathway for colorectal surgery – Part 1: From the preoperative period to PACU (2017)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on optimal analgesia within an enhanced recovery pathway for colorectal surgery – Part 2: From PACU to the transition home (2017)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on prevention of postoperative infection within an enhanced recovery pathway for elective colorectal surgery (2017)

●ASER: Expert opinion statement for the prophylaxis and management of postoperative nausea and vomiting in enhanced recovery protocols (2016)

●ASER and POQI: Joint consensus statement on perioperative fluid management within an enhanced recovery pathway for colorectal surgery (2016)

Europe

●European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (EAES)/Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES): Evidence-based recommendations and expert consensus on optimization of perioperative care in older adults (2024)

●European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC): European guidelines on peri-operative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis – First update: Day surgery and fast-track surgery (2024)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on perioperative care in adults (2020)