Prehabilitation in elective surgical interventions – what must the general and abdominal surgeon know

Abstract

For years, many efforts have been invested to prepare patients, in particular, those with reduced physical and psychic status, much better to provide and finally achieve better outocme if there is time available to provide several beneficial measures.

Keywords

• abdominal surgery
• enhanced recovery after surgery (eras)
• general surgery
• prehabilitation
• preoperative risk assessment
• supplementation