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  • Surgical Oncology
  • Critical Care Medicine

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  • Moderate-to-high-risk surgical patients are often older, frail, and have comorbidities.
  • Unhealthy lifestyle factors like smoking and poor nutrition increase postoperative complication risks.
  • Lung cancer surgery presents a significant physiological challenge, comparable to a marathon.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the importance of preoperative patient optimization, termed 'prehabilitation'.
  • To emphasize prehabilitation's role in enhancing general health and physiological reserve before surgery.
  • To advocate for prehabilitation as a key component of improved recovery pathways.

Main Methods:

  • Implementing behavioral interventions: smoking cessation, alcohol reduction, nutritional support, and mobilization.
  • Structured exercise training programs, including endurance and respiratory muscle training.
  • Multimodal interventions, individualized to patient condition, combining education, nutrition, and physical training.

Main Results:

  • Prehabilitation enhances aerobic fitness and mitigates pulmonary complications.
  • Nutritional support (1.5-2 g/kg/day protein) restores muscle mass and strength.
  • Multimodal prehabilitation bundles show synergistic benefits over single interventions, reducing hospital stay.

Conclusions:

  • Prehabilitation is crucial for optimizing high-risk surgical patients.
  • Patient-centered, coordinated care among healthcare professionals is essential for effective prehabilitation.
  • Prehabilitation empowers patients and improves their ability to withstand surgical stress.