Internal Medicine Meeting Recordings
This Pre-Course, recorded in conjunction with the Internal Medicine Meeting 2023, reviews the assessment and management of patients with medical comorbidities undergoing noncardiac surgical procedures. Expert faculty discuss postoperative nausea and vomiting, preoperative blood pressure control, postoperative headache, and fasting time prior to surgery. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in the postoperative period for patients with renal impairment, hereditary or acquired coagulation disorders, history recurrent VTE, and the best VTE prophylaxis for surgery are reviewed. Preoperative validated risk assessment tools, mitigation strategies for identified comorbidities, and management of postoperative complications are emphasized. Topics include perioperative medication management; cardiac, pulmonary, and COVID-19 testing and frailty risk indices with modification strategies; postoperative cardiac complications; managing cannabis, suboxone, and methadone; using direct oral anticoagulants; treating postoperative delirium; and new diabetes medications.
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