Strategies to Minimize Postoperative Deconditioning in Elderly Surgical Patients

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 203, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 735-745

  Killewich, Lois A ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGING; BED REST; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG CANCER; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MUSCLE TRAINING; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE DECONDITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

AGED; AGING; BED REST; BODY COMPOSITION; CARDIOVASCULAR DECONDITIONING; EXERCISE THERAPY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 33750493645     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.07.012     Document Type: Review

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