#174 Dominate Perioperative Medication Management
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Importance of Lithium in Surgery
The risk of interrupting a dose could be catastrophic and that's going to be something to take when they're MPO on the morning of surgery Lithium I get really passionate about talking about lithium. With rare exception I am stopping before surgery other antidepressants. SSR eyes SNR eyes are keeping people on even though there's a weird data about platelet inhibition and maybe bleeding risk MAO eyes which I almost never see You got to stop they are dangerous with anesthesia, but very very few patients are on the MAO eyes anymore lithium. acetaminophen is becomes more widely available That'd be fantastic The sheer joy and gasp that you did at the concept of IV acetaminophen just made my
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