General Internal Medicine

Peri-Operative Medicine

Questions discussed in this category

How many days prior to surgery do you recommend stopping SGLT2 inhibitors and when is it safe to resume therapy?

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How do you approach balancing the risks and benefits of elective surgery with patients who have multiple co-morbidities (e.g., frailty, chronic kidney disease, and COPD), when standard risk calculators do not capture the full complexity of their condition?

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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 checking preoperative cardiac biomarkers such as troponin and BNP?

Do you find them more helpful as predictors of perioperative risk or as a baseline to detect post-operative adverse cardiac events?

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Papers discussed in this category

Circulation, 2021 Oct 04

Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Myocardial Injury After Noncardiac Surgery: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

Circulation, 2024 Sep 24

2024 AHA/ACC/ACS/ASNC/HRS/SCA/SCCT/SCMR/SVM Guideline for Perioperative Cardiovascular Management for Noncardiac Surgery: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.

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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