Authors Keywords: surgical resilience, planned interventions, increasing functional reserve, prehabilitation Abstract

Prehabilitation consists of planned interventions implemented prior to surgery with the aim of increasing functional reserve and creating surgical resilience to positively impact a patient's surgical outcome.

Author Biography L Gilliland, University of the Witwatersrand

Department of Anaesthesia, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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