Why the study?
Although prehabilitation has been associated with improved outcomes in other surgical subspecialties, its role in metabolic and bariatric surgery remains unclear.
Does prehabilitation improve postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery?
Does prehabilitation improve postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery?
This narrative review explores the role and clinical practicality of prehabilitation for optimizing surgical outcomes in metabolic and bariatric surgery.
May support prehabilitation to optimize bariatric surgery outcomes; leaves open confirmation in prospective trials.
Background and Objective: With over 250,000 metabolic and bariatric surgeries performed in the United States annually, there has been an interest in minimizing preoperative surgical risk and thus optimizing surgical outcomes. One of the recent strategies to accomplish this is by instituting prehabilitation, defined as a preoperative program with the goal of improving functional capability and consequently, postoperative outcomes. Improved outcomes have been associated with prehabilitation in other surgical subspecialties, such as cardiovascular and orthopedics. However, the role of prehabilitation within metabolic and bariatric surgery remains unclear. In this review, we aim to present and summarize the available literature surrounding prehabilitation, as well as discuss its implications and clinical practicality.
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