Expert Consensus on Prehabilitation Management for Enhanced Recovery in Patients Undergoing Thoracic Surgery(2022)

Abstract

Prehabilitation is the important starting part of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS). Multimodal prehabilitation management before thoracic surgery can increase the perioperative functional capacity of patients and help to improve the prognosis, which has been widely recognized. However, there are no guide- lines or standards of specific contents and implementation process of thoracic prehabilitation, causing some confusion in clinical practice. Expert Consensus on Prehabilitation Management for Enhanced Recovery in Patients undergoing Thoracic Surgery (2022) helps to provide a feasible guideline for clinical prehabilitaion practice, which was based on evidence-based medicine and experts' discussion to reach a preliminary consensus on five aspects of prehabilitation in thoracic surgery, including the indication, recommended duration, comprehensive evaluation before prehabilitation, specific practice contents, and management process.

Keywords

• prehabilitation
• enhanced recovery after surgery
• thoracic surgery
• expert consensus