Supervised Home-Based Exercise Prehabilitation in Unfit Patients Scheduled for Pancreatic Surgery: Protocol for a Multicenter Feasibility Study

Nicole D Hildebrand   ^{1, 2 *} , MD ;   Allard G Wijma   ^{3 *} , MD ;   Bart C Bongers   ^{2, 4} , MSc, PhD ;   Sander S Rensen   ² , MSc, PhD ;   Marcel den Dulk   ^{1, 2, 5} , MD, PhD ;   Joost M Klaase   ^{3 *} , MD, PhD ;   Steven W M Olde Damink   ^{1, 2, 5 *} , MD, MSc, PhD

¹ Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, Netherlands

² Department of Surgery, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

³ Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

⁴ Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

⁵ Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Rheinish-Westphalian Technical University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

*these authors contributed equally