Why are you so tired after surgery?

Robot-Assisted Early Mobilization for Intensive Care Unit Patients: Feasibility and First-Time Clinical Use

“…This reaction was not desirable, but was deemed tolerable due to its short-term occurrence and as an expected risk in view of the temporal proximity to the transplantation procedure (Wickerson et al, 2016). Also exhaustion (or fatigue) has been shown to be a normal response to surgery after less invasive procedures, such as day surgery (Donadello and Gottin, 2020;Mendy et al, 2020). Patients who have undergone lung transplantation continue to experience fatigue one year after surgery (Reinsma et al, 2006).…”