7 – 8 December 2017
PSH Australia: CPET workshop & Prehabilitation Symposium: Incorporating POETTS (UK) accredited CPET course
This workshop will focus on using cardiopulmonary exercise testing (and other tests including 6-MWT, PFTs and frailty assessment) for preoperative risk stratification and prehabilitation (optimization) of the surgical patient.
Prehabilitation involves proactive patient management prior to surgery with exercise programs, smoking cessation, correction of anaemia and nutritional interventions to help cope with the stress of surgery.