According to a new study, exercise and attention to your diet before an operation reduces the risk of complications and the length of hospitalization.
- Exercise and improve your diet before an important operation are associated with less complications.
- This also reduces the length of stay in hospital and improves the quality of life of patients.
- The researchers reached this conclusion after having analyzed 186 trials involving 15,684 participants.
If you must soon undergo a major surgery … Two elements could reduce your risk of complications as well as your hospital time, according to a new study published in the journal BMJ.
This “pre-reeducation “ is based on the exercise and improvement of the diet.
Post-operative complications: exercise and food helps reduce risks
To determine the factors that reduce the risks of complications during an operation, the researchers reviewed the data of 186 studies carried out on the subject, a total of 15,684 participants with an average age of 62 years. These works evaluated, among other things, individual pre-educational components such as exercise, food or even cognitive and psychosocial support for seven days or more before surgery. They also noted complications up to 30 days after surgery, the length of stay in hospital and the quality of life related to health and physical recovery up to 90 days after the operation.
Result: doing the exercise before the operation was associated with a 50 % reduction in the risk of complications compared to the usual care. Nutritional support decreased the risk by 38 % of the risk. The combination of exercise, nutrition and psychosocial support was associated with a 36 % drop in risk.
The physical activity/psychosocial support program was linked to 2.44 days of less hospitalization. Combine the exercise with nutritional follow -up reduced for his stay in the hospital by 1.22 days. Individually, the exercise and food were associated respectively with 0.93 and 0.99 days of less hospitalization.
“The association of physical exercise, nutrition and psychosocial pre-adaptation was most likely to improve the quality of life related to health and physical recovery. Individually, exercise and nutrition were the more likely to improve all critical results “indicate the authors in their press release.
Surgical operation: “pre-reeducation” is beneficial to patients
Researchers who have made this meta-analysis, recognize several limits to their work. However, they assure that the results concerning pre-operative exercise and nutrition were solid “After excluding studies presenting a high risk of bias”.
Thus, they believe that “pre-reeducation” based on exercise, nutrition or exercise combined with other components “Can be beneficial for adults preparing for surgery and could be considered in clinical care.”
