Prehab nutrition
Providing positive results in postop outcomes
The purpose of prehabilitation is to enhance a patient’s physical and psychological function to support them before, during and after surgery. Dietitians play a key role in providing nutritional assessment and recommendations. As a champion of prehab nutrition, Kristy shares her practical clinical knowledge with us including:
- Prehabilitation:
- What is prehab?
- The surgical stress response and why prehab is important.
- The benefits of prehab
- Components of Prehabilitation:
- Exercise
- Nutrition: nutrition screening, assessment, body composition, diet optimisation, protein recommendations.
- Psychological support
- How to set up a Prehabilitation program
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About the Presenter
Kristy-Lee Raso is the Colorectal Surgery and Gastrointestinal Prehabilitation Dietitian at Concord Repatriation General Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Kristy has a particular interest in preoperative nutrition and is currently completing her PhD on Prehabilitation in gastrointestinal cancer surgery investigating the effects of nutritional prehabilitation, implementation and compliance with prehabilitation interventions and its impact on surgical outcomes. She is currently involved with a number of committees including the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation Surgical Taskforce Prehabilitation working party.
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