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How Fit is Fit? Optimizing Fitness Prior to Transp ...
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
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