CHEST 2023 On Demand Pass-How Fit is Fit? Optimizing Fitness Prior to Transplantation

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Video Summary

In this Lung Transplant Session, the speakers discuss the importance of assessing and optimizing fitness in preparation for lung transplantation. They highlight the challenges in determining how fit patients are and how to intervene to make them better candidates for transplant. The speakers touch on various topics such as pre-transplant interventions, weight loss, underweight patients, frailty, and cardiorespiratory fitness assessments. They emphasize the need for pre-transplant optimization to improve post-transplant outcomes and discuss different interventions that can be done to optimize candidates. The speakers also mention different metrics and tests that are used to assess physical performance and how they may or may not correlate with transplant outcomes. Overall, the session focuses on the importance of assessing and optimizing fitness in lung transplant candidates to improve their chances of success.

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Category Transplantation

Session ID 1111

Speaker Thomas Decato

Speaker Joshua Diamond

Speaker Cassie Kennedy

Speaker David Nunley

Track Transplantation

Keywords

Lung Transplant Session

fitness assessment

pre-transplant interventions

weight loss

underweight patients

frailty

cardiorespiratory fitness

post-transplant outcomes

physical performance assessment