Preoperative Risk Stratification

Uses

How it works

Evidence quality

Highlighted claims

• Preoperative cardiopulmonary fitness is a well-established determinant of postoperative risk. — Functional Assessment for Surgery by a Timed Walk (FAST Walk) study: protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study of the 6 min walk test for preoperative risk stratification in major non-cardiac surgery
• The true incremental prognostic value of the 6MWT beyond routine clinical factors remains uncertain. — Functional Assessment for Surgery by a Timed Walk (FAST Walk) study: protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study of the 6 min walk test for preoperative risk stratification in major non-cardiac surgery
• In practice, preoperative fitness is often estimated through unstructured clinical interviews, an approach that neither accurately measures fitness nor predicts complications. — Functional Assessment for Surgery by a Timed Walk (FAST Walk) study: protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study of the 6 min walk test for preoperative risk stratification in major non-cardiac surgery
• No large multicentre study has directly compared feasible fitness measures against each other or against the 6MWT in predicting clinically meaningful postoperative outcomes. — Functional Assessment for Surgery by a Timed Walk (FAST Walk) study: protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study of the 6 min walk test for preoperative risk stratification in major non-cardiac surgery
• Research priority-setting initiatives identify improved preoperative risk stratification as a leading unmet need. — Functional Assessment for Surgery by a Timed Walk (FAST Walk) study: protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study of the 6 min walk test for preoperative risk stratification in major non-cardiac surgery