Patient-reported questionnaires to preoperatively identify high-risk surgical patients.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) increases the risk of postoperative morbidity and mortality following major surgery. Assessing CRF preoperatively, by measuring peak oxygen uptake (VO_2peak) during cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), is valuable yet not widely available. This study aimed to assess whether questionnaires could be used preoperatively to identify high-risk surgical patients.

Methods

Healthy participants and patients who underwent CPET completed the FitMáx, Duke Activity Status Index (DASI), the modified 4-questions DASI (M-DASI-4Q), Veterans-Specific Activity Questionnaire (VSAQ), and Metabolic Equivalents of Task (MET) questionnaire. Questionnaire-VO_2peak was compared with CPET-VO_2peak. Overall performance of the

SUBMITTER: Meijer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11618187 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature