Prehabilitation in elective surgical interventions - what must the general and abdominal surgeon know.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

For years, many efforts have been invested to prepare patients, in particular, those with reduced physical and psychic status, much better to provide and finally achieve better outocme if there is time available to provide several beneficial measures.

Methods

Therefore, the objective was to illustrate the concept and various single elements of a complex prehabilitation concept based on (i) selective references from the medical literature and (ii) own clinical experiences from clinical practice in general and abdominal surgery.

Results

Prehabiliation can be considered the solution of the efforts to improve preoperative status for patients in a disadvantageous status for almost all types of surgery and all other operative and/or interventional procedures. It

SUBMITTER: Meißner C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10696941 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature