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. 2020 Apr 21;99(6):459–463. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001452

FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 4

Common interventions in a surgical prehabilitation protocol. Surgical prehabilitation protocols may contain a variety of different interventions. Core elements that have been studied include general and targeted exercise, nutrition, psychological stress reduction, and smoking cessation. Other interventions that may be helpful include correcting anemia, treating obstructive sleep apnea, and providing aftercare education about common feeding tube problems, etc.