Summary
Frail patients are routinely scheduled for elective cardiovascular surgery. Despite
proven association between frailty and postoperative outcomes, currently we have no
consistent evidence that preoperative optimisation of frail patients with preoperative
nutrition support and exercise programs can alter post-operative mortality. Established
frailty diagnostic tools are not sufficient to grasp the multidimensional nature of
frailty in cardiovascular patients. Prehabilitation programs and preoperative nutritional
support are time and resource consuming and therefore hard to implement in routine
clinical practice.
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