The Role of Surgical Prehabilitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond - 06/07/23
Résumé |
The challenging circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a regression in baseline health of disadvantaged populations, including individuals with frail syndrome, older age, disability, and racial-ethnic minority status. These patients often have more comorbidities and are associated with increased risk of poor postoperative complications, hospital readmissions, longer length of stay, nonhome discharges, poor patient satisfaction, and mortality. There is critical need to advance frailty assessments to improve preoperative health in older populations. Establishing a gold standard for measuring frailty will improve identification of vulnerable, older patients, and subsequently direct designs for population-specific, multimodal prehabilitation to reduce postoperative morbidity and mortality.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Rehabilitation, Prehabilitation, Surgery, Disability, COVID-19, Long COVID, Postacute sequelae SARS CoV2, Pandemic
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Vol 34 - N° 3
P. 523-538 - août 2023 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.