All of the relevant financial relationships listed below have been mitigated.
Anne Fabrizio, MD: This individual has no financial relationships with ineligible companies.
Jessica Stephens, MD: This individual has no financial relationships with ineligible companies.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Recognize how to optimize surgery for patients who take chronic medications that impact intestinal motility, such as GLP-1 inhibitors and other gastric emptying inhibitors, anticoagulants, and other medications which may need to be stopped preoperatively.
Discuss perioperative communication strategies to improve day-to-day efficiency and patient safety, and how to call upon these strategies to optimize emergency settings.
Address how to anticipate and avoid frustrations and inefficiencies in daily surgical practice.
CME Credit: 0.75 Contact Hours: 0.75
This symposium will discuss common reasons for OR delays in the ever-changing landscape of perioperative protocols and new medications and how to anticipate and avoid resulting inefficiencies.
