Surgical Prehabilitation: Systematic Review

Abstract

Given that elective surgery is a “scheduled stress”, it is important to improve the organism’s responses to that stress through prehabilitation, defined as a multi-disciplinary intervention, which objective is to take advantage of pre-operational period to improve the individual’s functional capacity by implementing hygienic-dietetic and psychological measurements, and in this way, to favor an early post-surgical recuperation, as well as prevent or attenuate the functional impairment related to the surgery and its consequences.[2, 3]