Why the study?
Preoperative habilitation (prehabilitation) rather than postoperative rehabilitation offers an opportunity to optimize surgical outcomes and provide necessary conditioning that could be delayed by postoperative complications.
Does a surgical prehabilitation program improve surgical outcomes in patients undergoing colorectal surgery?
Does a surgical prehabilitation program improve surgical outcomes in patients undergoing colorectal surgery?
Prehabilitation offers a unique opportunity to optimize surgical outcomes in colorectal surgery by providing necessary conditioning before surgery.
May support prehabilitation consideration in colorectal surgery; leaves open confirmation of benefits in randomized trials.
The implementation of upfront, preoperative habilitation ("prehabilitation"), as opposed to postoperative habilitation (rehabilitation), provides a unique opportunity to optimize surgical outcomes, while ensuring that patients receive necessary conditioning that may otherwise be significantly delayed by postoperative complications. In this review, opportunities to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate a surgical prehabilitation program in colorectal surgery are discussed, and broken down to include emotional, physical, and nutritional aspects of care in the preoperative setting.
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