OA08.04 Providing Thoracic Prehabilitation during COVID-19: Review of a Virtual Model.

Abstract

Prehabilitation in lung cancer surgery has shown to improve exercise capacity and reduce post-operative complication rates, morbidity and hospital length of stay (Rosero et al, 2019; Boujibar et al, 2018; Steffens et al, 2018). Prehabilitation is predominantly delivered via supervised exercise programmes, however since the COVID-19 pandemic, capacity to deliver face-to-face hospital appointments has significantly reduced. Therefore, we present preliminary data from a new, virtual prehabilitation service for patients undergoing lung surgery at a busy National Health Service Trust in London.