The ERAS Implementation Program is a ERAS specific training program designed and customized for your perioperative care team to implement, reach and mantain a high compliance level to the different ERAS Protocols available.  It focuses on building well-functioning teams from various units involved in surgical care, introducing highly specific changes to current routines to conform to best-practice, and providing the tools to monitor and analyze the effects of those changes, through ERAS Interactive Audit System.

Implementing the ERAS Care System requires commitment.  It requires changing the way some things have been done in the past.  It requires tight, coordinated teamwork among those involved in perioperative care.  In addition, the active involvement of the management team of the hospital is critical.  With these in place, your surgical center is well on its way to achieving improved quality of life for your patients, much improved control of the perioperative care process for your staff and management, and the proven and significant savings that the ERAS Care System provides.

Becoming an ERAS Qualifed Professional

ERAS Qualified Professional is person who has been through all 4 training sessions (has completed the entire ERAS Implementation Program course)

Becoming an ERAS Qualified Clinic

ERAS Qualified Clinic: (a) Has entered 50 patients prospectively and has at least 4 ERAS Qualified Professionals (3 nurses and at least 1 physician)

Assembling the ERAS Team

Your hospital or clinic assembles an ERAS Team of 4-6 people, consisting of doctors and nurses from the surgical clinic as well as anesthesiology, intensive care and post-op care, and possibly a representative from the quality control team of the organization.  One person from each team is appointed as a project leader and is responsible for registering the patient data in the ERAS Interactive Audit System.

ERAS Training Course and Supervision

The ERAS training courses are built on education methodology based on the "Breakthrough Series", developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston.  The method is well-proven and has shown very good, lasting results.

There are four seminars in the course, taking a total of 5 days.  The seminars are offered over a period of 8 – 10 months, and are alternated with local implementation work at your hospital.  The hospital's ERAS Team attends the seminars and is given coaching and supervision as it implements and uses the ERAS Care system.  Experts from the ERAS Society also give lectures as part of the program.

Time Commitment for ERAS Implementation Program

In order to ensure the success of this change process, the active leadership of the clinic chief  is required to make sure that team members are allocated sufficient time to work on this project.

In addition to attending the seminars and working on the implementation,  the project leader may require up to 20 hours/week to register patient data in the ERAS Interactive Audit System.