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How do you manage anticoagulation/antiplatelet therapies with strong indications for uninterrupted therapy in setting of urgent procedures?

For example, anticoagulation for recent, significant PE or dual antiplatelet therapy for recent MI, but requiring urgent procedures such as biopsy of ...

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How many days prior to elective major surgery do you recommend holding oral GLP 1 R agonist therapy?

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What is your approach to perioperative risk stratification and optimization in patients with cirrhosis?

Do you find risk scores such as VOCAL-Penn to be helpful?

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Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, 2024 Oct 29

Multisociety clinical practice guidance for the safe use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the perioperative period.

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