patient safety

Protocols

GLP-1s and the Operating Room: What to Know Before Elective Surgery

As weekly injections become a fixture of the looksmaxing toolkit, anesthesiologists are raising a quieter alarm about what happens when patients carrying a slow-emptying stomach meet an operating table.

Peptides

The Surgeon's New GLP-1 Problem: What Patients on Semaglutide Should Know Before the OR

A fresh systematic review consolidates the perioperative signals — delayed gastric emptying, hypoglycemia, anesthesia risk — that every patient on a GLP-1 should bring up before surgery.