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Surgical prehabilitation is an emerging concept which derives from the realization that despite innovations in perisurgical care and technology some aspects of postoperative outcome have not significantly changed. This is probably due to other factors such as patients’ health and functional status, which are modifiable. As the population gets older and surgical mortality decreases, patients are increasingly concerned with quality of life, community reintegration, and cognitive well-being. Innovative comprehensive preoperative risk evaluation and implementation of multidisciplinary prehabilitation programs need to be further developed and tested, particularly directed to patients at risk. The integrated role of physical exercise, adequate nutrition, and psychosocial balance, together with medical and pharmacological optimization, deserves to receive more attention.
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Robinson, T.N., Carli, F., Scheede-Bergdahl, C. (2015). Medical Optimization and Prehabilitation. In: Feldman, L., Delaney, C., Ljungqvist, O., Carli, F. (eds) The SAGES / ERAS® Society Manual of Enhanced Recovery Programs for Gastrointestinal Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20364-5_3
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