“NEW” Prehabilitation: A 3-Way Approach to Improve Postoperative Survival and Health-Related Quality of Life in Cardiac Surgery Patients

With advances in health care practices and delivery, the overall life expectancy of the Western population has increased. For those practitioners involved in the care of the patient with advanced cardiac disease, there has been a resultant higher prevalence of increasingly frail and older patients undergoing complex cardiac procedures. The higher rates of comorbid-associated higher vulnerability, with associated deconditioning, predisposes …