Prehabilitation before cardiac surgery
Prehabilitation aims to reduce the impact of major surgery by improving the physical and psychological resilience of patients. Although exercise represents one component of prehabilitation, nutritional and psychological support are also critical t...
Gibbison B, Pufulete M — British journal of anaesthesia
Expert-consensus on lymphedema surgeries: candidacy, prehabilitation, and postoperative care
For over 2 decades, the mainstay of lymphedema treatment has been complete decongestive therapy, however, surgical options are available when conservative treatment is not successful in reducing lymphedema. Standardized pre-surgical and post-surgi...
Sacks J, Riley B, Doubblestein D et al. — Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England)
Brain Prehabilitation for Oncologic Surgery
This review aims to summarize the current research on postoperative cognitive complications, such as delirium and cognitive dysfunction. This includes discussion on preoperative preventive strategies, such as physical and nutritional prehabilitati...
Daksla N, Nguyen V, Jin Z et al. — Current oncology reports
Preoperative exercise and prehabilitation
The purpose of this narrative review is to give an overview about the effects of multimodal prehabilitation and current existing and prospectively planned studies. The potential efficacy of exercise in the context of prehabilitation ranges from pr...
Esser T, Zimmer P, Schier R — Current opinion in anaesthesiology
Prehabilitation, enhanced recovery after surgery, or both? A narrative review
This narrative review presents a biological rationale and evidence to describe how the preoperative condition of the patient contributes to postoperative morbidity. Any preoperative condition that prevents a patient from tolerating the physiologic...
Gillis C, Ljungqvist O, Carli F — British journal of anaesthesia
Pulmonary prehabilitation and smoking cessation
This review aims to summarize the current literature on pulmonary prehabilitation programs, their effects on postoperative pulmonary complications, and the financial implications of implementing these programs. Additionally, this review has discus...
Ibekwe SO, Mondal S, Faloye AO — Current opinion in anaesthesiology
Prehabilitation for Total Knee or Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review
We sought to systematically review the evidence on the benefits and harms of prehabilitation interventions for patients who are scheduled to undergo elective, unilateral total knee arthroplasty or total hip arthroplasty surgery for the treatment o...
Konnyu KJ, Thoma LM, Cao W et al. — American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation
Prehabilitation
In this article, we review the evidence underpinning the broader prehabilitation concept and the target behavioural and lifestyle risk factors including their perioperative impact and evidence for prehabilitation intervention. We also identify pri...
Durrand J, Singh SJ, Danjoux G — Clinical medicine (London, England)
Prehabilitation in thoracic surgery
Surgical resection remains the best treatment option for patients with early stage of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, it may be responsible of postoperative complication and mortality, especially in patients with impaired pulmonary fu...
Sanchez-Lorente D, Navarro-Ripoll R, Guzman R et al. — Journal of thoracic disease
Surgical Prehabilitation: Nutrition and Exercise
Complications after major surgery account for a disproportionate amount of in-hospital morbidity and mortality. Recent efforts have focused on preoperative optimization in an attempt to modify the risk associated with major surgery. Underaddressed...
Whittle J, Wischmeyer PE, Grocott MPW et al. — Anesthesiology clinics