Despite advances in surgical care over recent decades, major surgery still carries a
significant burden of morbidity. Perioperative research and improvement strategies have …

Optimizing a patients' condition before surgery to improve the postoperative outcome can be
achieved by using prehabilitation; preoperative interventions focusing on modifiable risk …

The concept of preparing surgical candidates with various modalities designed to increase
physical, physiological, metabolic, and psychosocial reserves is known as prehabilitation …

Surgery in combination with risk factors such as poor physical and nutritional status have
detrimental effects on short-and long-term aspects of recovery and quality of life, especially …

Prehabilitation comprises multidisciplinary healthcare interventions, including exercise,
nutritional optimisation, and psychological preparation, which aim to dampen the metabolic …

This narrative review presents a biological rationale and evidence to describe how the
preoperative condition of the patient contributes to postoperative morbidity. Any preoperative …

Background There has been increasing interest in the prehabilitation of patients undergoing
major abdominal surgery to improve perioperative outcomes. This systematic review and …

Tissue trauma, physical inactivity, quasi-starvation and psychological distress represent
major stresses to the body. In turn, immediate systemic changes are initiated, resulting in …

Despite advances in surgical techniques, anesthesia and perioperative care, which became
safer and accessible to a higher proportion of high-risk patients, major surgery remains …

As the world's population ages rapidly, many elderly people are living to a much more
advanced age than before. Consequently, medical conditions that require surgical …