Multimodal prehabilitation in people awaiting acute inpatient cardiac surgery: Study protocol for a pilot feasibility trial (PreP-ACe).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The concept of "prehabilitation," or optimising individual physical and mental wellbeing prior to surgery is well established in cancer and orthopaedic populations. However, amongst the cardiac surgery population, the concept is relatively new. Of the few studies available, all focus on the elective surgical population. This pilot feasibility trial is novel as it will focus on the impact of multimodal prehabilitation on the acute inpatient cardiac surgical population.

Methods

This single centre, prospective, single arm pilot feasibility trial will recruit 20 inpatients awaiting cardiac surgery. Measurements will be collected at the start of the trial (baseline), 7 days after intervention, and 14 days after the intervention or before the day of surgery. The primary

SUBMITTER: Raut S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11892877 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature