Introduction Prehabilitation prior to major surgery has increased in popularity over recent
years and aims to improve pre‐operative conditioning of patients to improve post‐operative …

Objective To determine the benefits and harms of pre-admission interventions
(prehabilitation) on postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing major elective surgery …

Members of this Guideline Writing Committee (GWC) were selected by the European Society
for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) to represent physicians involved in the management of patients …

Abstract Objective The European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) has developed
clinical practice guidelines for the care of patients with aneurysms of the abdominal aorta …

Importance Preserving functional capacity is a key element in the care continuum for
patients with esophagogastric cancer. Prehabilitation, a preoperative conditioning …

The use of perioperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) to evaluate the risk of
adverse perioperative events and inform the perioperative management of patients …

Rationale: Poor preoperative physical fitness and respiratory muscle weakness are
associated with postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) that result in prolonged …

Despite calls for the routine implementation of pre‐operative exercise programmes to
optimise patient fitness before elective major surgery, there is no practical guidance for …

Purpose High complication rates following colorectal surgery render many patients unable
to fully regain functional capacity, thus seriously compromising quality of life. The aim of this …

Abstract The Society for Vascular Surgery and the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society
formally collaborated and elected an international, multidisciplinary panel of experts to …