Role of regional anesthesia in minimizing opioid use and enhancing patient recovery: a case series.

Background: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery employs evidence-based strategies to improve outcomes across the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases. In spinal surgery, compared with traditional management with general anesthesia, regional anesthesia offers benefits such as reduced pain, improved organ function, faster mobility, and shorter hospital stays. Studies have shown that regional anesthesia, particularly spinal anesthesia, results in shorter operation times, lower postoperative pain, and fewer thrombosis complications than does general anesthesia.

Opioid-free anesthesia in enhanced recovery after supratentorial craniotomies: a case series.

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a recovery method developed to minimize pain and improve post-operative healing in patients. Brain tumor resection using the ERAS concept is relatively new. This case series evaluates the implementation of the ERAS protocol in three female patients diagnosed with supratentorial brain tumors.