BALTIMORE—A new study has demonstrated the important role that surgical prehabilitation can play in optimizing outcomes of surgical patients, even those undergoing very high-risk procedures.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis found that their Surgical Prehabilitation and Readiness (SPAR) enhanced recovery after surgery program yielded improvements in end points such as 30-day mortality, discharge to extended care facilities and hospital length of stay (LOS) compared with