Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) aims to optimize patient outcomes and reduce costs through a multimodal perioperative care approach. Traditionally, patients followed principles like prolonged preoperative fasting, use of nasogastric tubes, and long periods of bed rest after surgery. ERAS instead focuses on evidence-based best practices like early mobilization, regional anesthesia, and maintaining normothermia and fluid balance. By avoiding unnecessary dogmas and optimizing the patient's health before and after surgery through a team-based approach, ERAS can provide benefits like shorter hospital stays, less pain and complications, and faster recovery.