Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Nigeria, is a not-for profit medical organization that was established by a team of physicians Anaesthetists during the All African Anaesthetists Conference at Kigali Rwanda in 2022. Dr Rabiu Mohammed Bashir was nominated to serve as the pioneer President of the society. The Society was registered with the Cooperate Affairs Commission (CAC) and Federal Ministry for Budget and National Planning in 2023 to undertake public social responsibilities in line with Nigerian Government policy.

The ERAS® Society has its roots in what was called the ERAS® Study Group.  Comprised of leading surgical groups, the ERAS® Study Group was assembled by Professor Ken Fearon, University of Edinburgh, UK and Professor Olle Ljungqvist, Karolinska Insitutet, Sweden in 2001 to further develop ideas put forth in the 1990’s by Professor Henrik Kehlet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark concerning the concept of multimodal surgical care. In addition to the scholars mentioned above, Prof Arthur Revhaug, University of Tromsö, Norway, Prof Martin von Meyenfeldt and Prof Cornlius deJong, Maastricht University, The Netherlands were the original members of the ERAS® Study Group. The ERAS® Study Group later discovered that there were a variety of traditions in use in different units.  Additionally, there was discrepancy between the actual practices and what was already known to be best practice, based on the literature.  This prompted the group to examine the process of change from traditional practice to best practice.