Pediatric Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

Surgical standardization and optimization in pediatrics is relatively new compared to well- described and well-established concepts of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) in adult patients. However, evidence-based pediatric ERAS pathways that focus on optimizing all phases of surgical care can also provide value in pediatric surgical specialties by promoting multispecialty collaboration to improve the overall surgical experience of the child and the child’s family unit. Thoughtfully planned and carefully executed, pediatric ERAS protocols show great promise to hasten surgical recovery while reducing the surgical stress response, complication rates, and surgical costs for a variety of surgical procedures.