Prehabilitation before cardiac surgery encompasses physical training, nutritional optimization, and psychological support to enhance functional capacity and resilience.
Prehabilitation, including physical training, nutritional optimization, and psychological support, aims to enhance functional capacity and resilience before cardiac surgery.
The concept of prehabilitation, which involves enhancing a patient’s functional capacity before they undergo surgery to improve baseline health, thereby increasing resilience to the surgical procedure, 1-3 has gained attention across multiple surgical disciplines. Rooted in the idea that patients undergoing major operations are not merely passive recipients of care but active participants, prehabilitation commonly encompasses 1 or more of the following elements undertaken before surgery: physical training, nutritional optimization, psychological support
Majeed et al. (Tue,) conducted a review in Cardiac surgery. Prehabilitation was evaluated. Prehabilitation before cardiac surgery encompasses physical training, nutritional optimization, and psychological support to enhance functional capacity and resilience.