Background Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a perioperative patient
management strategy that is being adopted rapidly across surgical specialties worldwide …

Background: Digital technology has influenced many aspects of modern living, including
health care. In the context of elective surgeries, there is a strong association between …

Aim This paper aims to demonstrate how the rationale and delivery of cardiac rehabilitation
(CR), in those countries with long term established standards of practice, has changed over …

Surgical site infection (SSI) can be significantly detrimental to a patient's recovery. A SSI may
result in sepsis, increased postoperative pain, impede early mobilization and increase …

The perioperative nutritional status of patients undergoing cardiac surgery influences
outcomes; therefore nutritional support is essential for these patients. Owing to the lack of …

Objective Sarcopenia (core muscle loss) has been used as a surrogate marker of frailty. We
investigated whether sarcopenia would adversely affect survival after thoracoabdominal …

Background. The aim of this study was to validate our previous finding that frailty predicts
early mortality in patients with advanced heart failure (AHF) and that including cognition in …

Perioperative optimization of cardiac surgical patients is imperative to reduce complications,
utilize health care resources efficiently, and improve patient recovery and quality of life …

Background Failure to rescue (FTR) is gaining popularity as a quality metric. The
relationship between patient frailty and FTR after cardiovascular surgery has not been fully …

Background Postoperative complications occur in up to 43% of patients after surgery,
resulting in increased morbidity and economic burden. Prehabilitation has the potential to …