(313) Optimizing the Patient Before the Incision: Frailty, Prehabilitation, and Surgical Readiness
Time: 4:40 PM to 5:40 PM
Description
Using insights from quality collaboratives and surgical outcomes research, this session examines how frailty assessment can inform targeted preoperative optimization. The discussion will focus on translating population-level data into bedside interventions that improve wound outcomes, reduce postoperative morbidity, and support patient-centered surgical care, with specific attention to the role of WOC nurses across the perioperative continuum.
Continuing Education Credits
Contact Hours: 1.00
Learning Outcome
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to identify frailty in surgical patients and apply evidence-based preoperative optimization strategies—including nutrition, mobility, and interdisciplinary collaboration—to improve wound healing, ostomy outcomes, and postoperative recovery.