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  • Perioperative Medicine
  • Cardiology
  • Pulmonary Medicine

Background:

  • Surgical patients are increasingly elderly and have comorbidities, complicating perioperative care.
  • Accurate preoperative risk stratification is crucial for optimizing patient outcomes.
  • Reduced aerobic fitness is a known predictor of increased postoperative morbidity and mortality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the utility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in preoperative risk stratification.
  • To emphasize CPET's role in assessing functional capacity and predicting surgical outcomes.
  • To discuss the potential applications of CPET in guiding perioperative management and patient care.

Main Methods:

  • Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) as an integrated, dynamic assessment of aerobic fitness.
  • Objective measurement of functional capacity, including anaerobic threshold and peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak).
  • Evaluation of gas exchange efficiency using ventilatory equivalents for carbon dioxide.

Main Results:

  • CPET provides an objective measure of aerobic fitness and identifies causes of exercise intolerance.
  • Functional capacity metrics (anaerobic threshold, VO2peak) predict postoperative morbidity and mortality across surgical cohorts.
  • Ventilatory equivalents for carbon dioxide show predictive value for surgical outcomes in some patient groups.

Conclusions:

  • CPET enables individualized risk estimation for surgical patients, informing collaborative decision-making and patient consent.
  • The technology can guide patient triage, optimize comorbidities, and direct personalized preoperative exercise programs.
  • Prospective studies are needed to refine risk prediction models and identify optimal CPET variable combinations for diverse surgical populations.