Prehabilitation for Cancer Surgery

This book explores the concept of prehabilitation to great depths using all possible modes of prehabilitation across surgical specialities. Prehabilitation is a unique concept that is becoming popular day-by-day. It began from the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program and has found importance in almost all of the surgeries now.

The book possibly being the first on prehabilitation globally introduces the concept, describes the methods of functional assessment of the patients scheduled for extensive cancer surgery, and ways of pre-optimisation. It covers the methods of prehabilitation system-wise and then provides pehabilitation tools specific for individual onco-surgical subspecialties.

The book will be an invaluable resource for practitioners of onco-anesthesia and onco-surgery in optimizing their patients before surgery for best results. It will also be useful for the allied disciplines such as nutritionists, physiotherapists, psychiatrists and oncology nurses.

Dr Arunangshu Chakraborty (MBBS, MD) graduated from Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College Kolkata, India and received postgraduate qualification in anesthesiology from Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, Allahabad, India. He is a consultant anesthesiologist at Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India, which is a tertiary level oncology center. He has several peer reviewed international publications and has delivered many oral presentations in national and international level meetings. He is an executive committee member of Academy of Regional Anesthesia, India and reviewer of many international peer reviewed medical journals. His areas of interest include regional anesthesia, onco-anesthesia and medical ultrasound. He has edited and authored a textbook of regional anaesthesia.

Dr Ashokka Balakrishnan is a Consultant anaesthesiologist and Simulation Program Director (anaesthesia division) at National University Hospital and CenMED Associate at Centre forMedical Education (CenMED), National University of Singapore. He holds the office of the treasurer for the Asia Oceanic Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine (AOSRA-PM) and board member for the Pan Asia Society of Simulation (PASSH). He is the director for Masters in Health Professions Education (MHPE) program for the Maastricht-Singapore Collaboration at the Academy of Medicine, Singapore.

He started his career in Anaesthesia in 2002 and has 15 years of experience in high fidelity simulation based undergraduate, postgraduate medical and allied health acute care teaching. He has a Fellowship of the Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthesiologists (FANZCA) and a Masters in Health Professions Educations (MHPE) from Maastricht, Netherlands.  

His special interests are obstetric and regional anaesthesia, postgraduate exam support, simulation based postgraduate and undergraduate education, Inter professional education through acute care simulation and multidisciplinary team training.

He has conducted international workshops in simulation, airway and crisis management for acute care practitioners, trauma teams, anaesthesiologists and nursing delegates and hosted medical education faculty development programs in USA, Taiwan, Philippines, China, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia & India.

He is reviewer of BMJ Open, BMJ STEL, the Advances in Health Sciences Education, Advances In Simulation, Annals Of Medicine Singapore, The Asia Pacific Scholar (TAPS) and Singapore Medical journal.