Multimodal prehabilitation in people awaiting acute inpatient cardiac surgery: Study protocol for a pilot feasibility trial (PreP-ACe).
BackgroundThe concept of "prehabilitation," or optimising individual physical and mental wellbeing prior to surgery is well established in cancer and orthopaedic populations.However, amongst the cardiac surgery population, the concept is relatively new.Of the few studies available, all focus on the elective surgical population.This pilot feasibilit