Evidence-Based Prehabilitation

Abstract

Prehabilitation is essential for optimizing post-operative outcomes. In addition to the benefits in terms of improved functional capacity, it leads to a significant reduction in medical and surgical complications, as well as shorter hospital stays. Multimodal interventions, including adapted physical activity and nutritional management, offer the most promising results. However, the diversity of protocols and the non-effectiveness of some of them highlight the importance of identifying the most interesting ones, in order to improve the effectiveness of this approach in surgery.

Keywords: capacité fonctionnelle; chirurgie; complication; functional capacity; prehabilitation; préhabilitation; recherche; research; surgery.