Clinical guideline and recommendations on pre‐operative exercise training in patients awaiting major non‐cardiac surgery

GA Tew, R Ayyash, J Durrand, GR Danjoux - Anaesthesia, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Despite calls for the routine implementation of pre‐operative exercise programmes to optimise
patient fitness before elective major surgery, there is no practical guidance for providing …

Prehabilitation

J Durrand, R Hackett, D Yates, G Danjoux - Perioperative Medicine …, 2016 - Springer
Despite advances in surgical care over recent decades, major surgery still carries a significant
burden of morbidity. Perioperative research and improvement strategies have classically …

Community-based prehabilitation before elective major surgery: the PREP-WELL quality improvement project

GA Tew, R Bedford, E Carr, JW Durrand… - BMJ open …, 2020 - bmjopenquality.bmj.com
Optimising health and well-being before elective major surgery via prehabilitation initiatives
is important for good postoperative outcomes. In a busy tertiary centre in North East England…

[HTML][HTML] Systematic development and feasibility testing of a multibehavioural digital prehabilitation intervention for patients approaching major surgery (iPREPWELL) …

J Durrand, R Livingston, G Tew, C Gillis, D Yates… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Improving outcomes for people undergoing major surgery, specifically reducing perioperative
morbidity and mortality remains a global health challenge. Prehabilitation involves the …

International consensus is needed on a core outcome set to advance the evidence of best practice in cancer prehabilitation services and research

…, G Danjoux, JF Davis, L Denehy, J Durrand… - British Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Prehabilitation aims to optimise patients' physical and psychological status before treatment.
The types of outcomes measured to assess the impact of prehabilitation interventions vary …

Digital health coaching to improve patient preparedness for elective lower limb arthroplasty: a quality improvement project

N Powley, GA Tew, J Durrand, E Carr… - BMJ Open …, 2023 - bmjopenquality.bmj.com
Major surgery carries high risks with comorbidities, frailty and health risk behaviours
meaning patients are often unprepared for the physiological insult. Since 2018, the Prepwell …

Preoperative assessment of patients for major vascular surgery

JW Durrand, GR Danjoux - Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Effective preoperative evaluation of patients prior to major vascular surgery remains a significant
multidisciplinary challenge. Focused preoperative evaluation targeted to organ systems …

PREP—the Preoperative Risk Education Package: an online educational resource for primary care clinicians to encourage community based prehabilitation prior to …

J Durrand, F McHardy, E Land, Z Llewellyn… - British Journal of …, 2018 - bjgp.org
Background Prehabilitation prior to major surgery mandates cross-sector working. Utilising
the preoperative window from referral requires clinician engagement. Awareness of …

[BOOK][B] Development of a remotely supervised digitally facilitated multibehavioural prehabilitation intervention for patients approaching major surgery

JW Durrand - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Improving outcomes following major surgery is a pressing public health challenge. Postoperative
complications drive surgical mortality and a range of poorer outcomes for the individual …

Developing a digital intervention (iPREPWELL) using the behaviour change wheel to prepare patients for surgery: Work in progress poster presentation

R Livingston, J Durrand, D Wilkinson… - … Society Division of …, 2022 - research.tees.ac.uk
Purpose: The UK undertakes approximately 2.4 million major surgical procedures annually.
Improving the physical and psychological resilience of patients before surgery (…