Prehabilitation: finally utilizing frailty screening data

Publication date: Available online 11 January 2020Source: European Journal of Surgical OncologyAuthor(s): Francesco Carli, Amal Bessissow, Rashami Awasthi, Sender LibermanAbstractThe elderly colorectal cancer patients tend to be frail, at nutrition risk with multiple comorbidities. In view of the stress on the body by surgery and recovery, it makes sense if patients are prepared before appropriately so that they can recover earlier and better. Prehabilitation prior to major surgery has attracted the attention of clinicians recently, and this review highlights the steps that need to be taken to implement a multidisciplinary program. Such programs requires a paradigm shift in the sense that all players need to be working in team for the benefit of patinets’ outcome.
Source: European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO) - Category: Surgery Source Type: research