ERAS® Cardiac Surgery Society

Optimize Perioperative Care of Cardiac Surgical Patients Through Collaborative: Discovery, Analysis, and Best Practices

- Evidence-Based Best Practices
- Improved Outcomes
- ERAS® Cardiac Surgery Standards

Cardiac surgery is an underappreciated contributor to the opioid crisis, with patients commonly utilizing opioid prescriptions months after their index procedure. This video addresses the historical basis for opioid-based anesthesia and analgesia in cardiac surgery and describes five programmatic strategies to reduce the perioperative use of opioids.

Michael C. Grant MD, MSE, Johns Hopkins Medicine,

The STS 8 in 8 Series offers quick access to important topics in cardiothoracic surgery. Each informative video is narrated by an expert in the field and covers one topic using eight slides in 8 minutes.

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The ERAS Cardiac Surgery mission is to optimize perioperative care of cardiac surgical patients through collaborative discovery, analysis, expert consensus, and dissemination of best practices. http://erascardiac.org/ Presented at the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons, 2018, San