Table 6.
Optimization of high risk patients with Prehab.
| Parameter | Dyspnoea >3 and PS > 2 |
DLCO <50% |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prior to Prehab | Following Prehab | p | Prior to Prehab | Following Prehab | p | ||
| Performance status | 0–1 | 4 (14.3) | 7 (50) | 0.02 | 15 (45.4) | 14 (66.7) | ns |
| 2–4 | 24 (85.7) | 7 (50) | 18 (54.6) | 7 (33.3) | |||
| Dyspnoea score | 0–2 | 0 | 5 (35.7) | 0.008 | 12 (36.4) | 12 (57.1) | ns |
| >2 | 28 (100) | 14 (64.3) | 21 (63.6) | 9 (42.9) | |||
| Level of activity | Sedentary | 26 (92.9) | 6 (50) | 0.004 | 27 (81.8) | 2 (11.1) | 0.00001 |
| Active | 2 (7.1) | 6 (50) | 6 (18.2) | 16 (88.9) | |||
| Frailty | 1–3 | 2 (7.1) | 5 (35.7) | 0.03 | 14 (42.4) | 16 (76.2) | 0.02 |
| 4–7 | 26 (92.9) | 9 (64.3) | 19 (57.6) | 5 (23.8) | |||
| Considered not fit for | Surgery | 28 (100) | 9 (47.4) | <0.05 | 26 (78.8) | 9 (40.9) | 0.009 |
| Radiotherapy | 10 (38.5) | 3 (15.8) | ns | 11 (34.4) | 3 (13.6) | ns | |
Values are numbers (percentage) unless otherwise stated. P values were calculated using Fishers exact test for categorical data by excluding unknown data.