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¹Cardiac Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Cardiac Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK.

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Summary

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Prehabilitation, combining exercise, nutrition, and psychological support, enhances patient resilience for major surgery. Comprehensive programs, tested in cardiac surgery trials, are crucial for clinical and cost-effectiveness.

Keywords:

cardiac surgery care bundle implementation postoperative outcome prehabilitation randomised controlled trial

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Cardiovascular Surgery
Perioperative Medicine
Rehabilitation Medicine

Background:

Prehabilitation programs aim to enhance patient resilience before major surgery, encompassing physical, nutritional, and psychological support.
While single interventions have been studied, combined prehabilitation is underutilized in cardiac surgery compared to other surgical fields.
Integrating components within a behavior change framework is key for maximizing prehabilitation effectiveness.

Discussion:

Cardiac surgery prehabilitation lags behind other surgical areas, presenting an opportunity for evidence-based implementation.
Previous non-cardiac surgery programs often lacked trials of combined interventions before widespread adoption.
A comprehensive, evidence-based approach combining all effective single interventions is most likely to yield successful cardiac surgery prehabilitation.

Key Insights:

Multimodal prehabilitation (exercise, nutrition, psychological support) is essential for surgical resilience.
Cardiac surgery requires a tailored, integrated prehabilitation strategy.
Rigorous testing of combined interventions is needed before widespread cardiac surgery prehabilitation rollout.

Outlook:

Future cardiac surgery prehabilitation should focus on integrated, multimodal programs.
Adequately powered multicenter randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are necessary to validate combined prehabilitation strategies.
Ensuring clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness is paramount before widespread implementation in cardiac surgery.