Prehabilitation: evolving role in contemporary cardiac surgery

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 25 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41569-023-00939-2The population of patients who undergo cardiac surgery is becoming older and more medically complex, and frailty is increasingly prevalent. Prehabilitation is a multicomponent programme intended to better prepare these vulnerable patients for the stresses of surgery. Nonetheless, the effectiveness, implementation and effects on long-term outcomes of prehabilitation have not been clearly established. In particular, frailty might not be easily mitigated by prehabilitation.

Source: Nature Reviews Cardiology - September 25, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Atilio Barbeito Daniel E. Forman Source Type: research