Fig 1.
An overview of the prehabilitation (PRE) group and standard care (SC) group.
The prehabilitation program was part of a pilot of the Heart-ROCQ program28, which continued with a clinical inpatient rehabilitation phase following discharge from the hospital. Including two group education sessions about basic training principles and forced expiration technique and huff and cough techniques and 30 minutes sessions of body awareness were given every 2 weeks. bIncluding intake, individual sessions on indication, and group education on cardiovascular risk factors; cOnly for patients who smoke; H: Hospitalization; ICU: Intensive care unit; IMT: Inspiratory muscle training; Max-IP: Peak inspiratory pressure; PRE-group: patients who followed the prehabilitation program; RPE: rate perceived exertion; SC-group: Standard Care group, who did not have the option to follow prehabilitation; 1RM: One Repetition Maximum, estimated based on 6-10RM.
Table 1.
Definitions of in-hospital postoperative complications.
Table 2.
Preoperative patient characteristics.
Table 3.
Operative and postoperative characteristics.
Fig 2.
Flow chart of the recruitment.
aPatients who were not able to cycle on an ergometer and followed other exercise modalities.
Table 4.
Incidence of in-hospital postoperative complications.