#174 Dominate Perioperative Medication Management
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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How to Tell a Patient to Hold Aspirin
There's a lot of stuff tucked in here. The statin is this an easy answer. Do we continue it? It should be an easy answer and it isn'tEasy answer that if you are on a statin it is protective and you should stay on it Is very very old lore, not even old or buried on the internet So I think it was actually like not as far back as 2011 2012 that there were guidelines that said to hold your statin before surgery because of the theoretical risk of myopathy or hepatic injury From anesthetic agents that is so Wrong We've had a lot of studies on vascular cardiovascular benefit of statins Simpson. In 2002 ACCHA national heart lung Blood Institute
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