Prehabilitation in patients awaiting elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery - effects on functional capacity and quality of life: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the impact of an exercise-based prehabilitation (EBPrehab) program on pre- and postoperative exercise capacity, functional capacity (FC) and quality of life (QoL) in patients awaiting elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG).

Design

A two-group randomized controlled trail.

Setting

Ambulatory prehabilitation.

Subjects

Overall 230 preoperative elective CABG-surgery patients were randomly assigned to an intervention (IG, n = 88; n = 27 withdrew after randomization) or control group (CG, n = 115).

Intervention

IG: two-week EBPrehab including supervised aerobic exercise. CG: usual care.

Main measures

At baseline (T1), one day before surgery (T2), at the beginning (T3) and at the end of cardiac reh

SUBMITTER: Steinmetz C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7477776 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature