Episode description
Episode description
Welcome to another episode of our medicine-surgery consult series! If your case was just cancelled because you and your patient did not know to hold their new GLP-1 agonist and you’re wondering what to do in the interim, this may be the perfect time to tune into a quick refresher of diabetes quick-hits as it pertains to surgical teams.You’ve just finished rolling a patient up to the OR in the middle of the night after a gunshot wound to the chest, and now you need to deal with something even more intimidating – finishing admission orders on your patient with chronic, poorly controlled diabetes on 7 different medications. Join Dr. Katherine Neal and Ayman Ali as they go over some general principles and tips and tricks in this ever-growing and complicated patient cohort!
Hosts:
Katherine Neal, MD. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke Hospital.
Ayman Ali, MD. General Surgery PGY-3, Duke University School of Medicine.
Learning Objectives:
- General principles of in-patient diabetes management
- Review of common medications and their side effects
- Learn some common pitfalls and how to avoid them
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