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Prehabilitation is defined as “the process of enhancing the functional capacity of the individual to enable him or her to withstand a stressful event”.
This recording of the very popular AAGBI webinar discusses aspects of the prehabilitation and pre-optimisation of patients before surgery with the aim of improving outcomes, focusing on pre-operative anaemia, exercise training; and patient involvement and education.
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‘Optimising patients before surgery - the importance of the preoperative period’
Chair and Co-ordinator: Dr Andrew Klein, Consultant, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. Editor-in-Chief, Anaesthesia. Director and Board Member, AAGBI.
Correcting pre-operative anaemia: Professor Donat R. Spahn, Professor and Head of Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Zurich and University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
Exercise testing and training before surgery: Dr Chris Snowden, Consultant Anaesthetist, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University. Peri-operative Medicine Lead, Royal College of Anaesthetists
Educating and training patients (Surgery School): Dr John Moore, NHS National Innovation Accelerator Fellow, Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, and Adult Critical Care Clinical Director. Central Manchester Foundation Trust