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Session:: Prehabilitation for Surgery: Making Lemonade from Lemons

ASCRS Recommendation about Prehab. Where are we and what is Next?

Sunday, May 10, 2026
4:13 PM - 4:23 PM ET

    Faculty(s)

  • Nicole M. Saur, MD (she/her/hers)

    Chief of Colon and Rectal Surgery
    St Vincent's Medical Center
    Bridgeport, CT, United States

    All disclosed relationships have been reviewed and managed prior to the start of this activity. Any relevant relationships will be listed below. This individual has no relevant financial relationships.

This presentation reviews current ASCRS recommendations on prehabilitation in colorectal surgery, with a focus on how frailty identification informs targeted, multimodal preoperative optimization. The talk highlights where the evidence stands today, how frailty screening and prehabilitation can be integrated into routine practice, and what is needed next to advance implementation, scalability, and patient-centered outcomes in colorectal surgery.