Safe GLP-1 RA use should include efforts to minimize the aspiration risk of delayed gastric emptying, which can be achieved by preoperative diet modification and/or altering anesthesia. HealthDay News ...

Preoperative evaluation: Take it step by step Identifying patients at higher risk for mortality and morbidity during the perioperative period can lead to strategies to minimize those risks.

Early patient-reported outcomes are a promising predictive factor of cancer progress and outcome in older patients: The EPROFECY study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2022 ASCO Annual ...

Palliative Care and Hematologic Malignancies: Old Dog, New Tricks? A quality improvement (QI) project was chartered to improve the care provided to patients with glioma. A multidisciplinary team was ...

A study by Andrew D. Auerbach, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of California, San Francisco, suggests that receiving selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in the perioperative period was ...

Patients continuously monitored after surgery experienced significantly less time with dangerously low oxygen levels compared to those monitored using routine spot checks, a new study from Wake Forest ...

GLP-1 receptor agonist use in the perioperative period should be based on shared decision-making of patient and care teams. HealthDay News — In a multisociety clinical practice guidance document, ...

The majority of patients may safely take glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) before elective surgery and gastrointestinal endoscopies, according to updated guidance from five medical ...