The Role and Effect of Multimodal Prehabilitation Before Major Abdominal Surgery: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Sneha Rajiv JainVasundhara Lakshmi KandarpaClyve Yu Leon YaowWinson JianHong TanLeonard Ming Li HoSharmini Su SivarajahJia Lin NgCheryl Xi Zi ChongDarius Kang Lie AwFung Joon FooFrederick Hong Xiang KohPublished in: World journal of surgery (2022)
As preoperative patient optimization shifts towards an interdisciplinary approach, evidence from this meta-analysis shows that multimodal prehabilitation improves the preoperative functional capacity and reduces postoperative complication rates, suggesting its potential in effectively optimizing the abdominal surgery patient. However, there is a large degree of heterogenicity between the prehabilitation interventions between included articles; hence results should be interpreted with caution.