Jeanna Blitz

Dr. Jeanna Blitz, an expert in preoperative assessment and optimization of patients, discusses the use of biomarkers, alternatives to RCRI, and assessment of frailty, nutritional and psychological status. They also discuss the importance of preoperative optimization, biomarkers in perioperative risk assessment, assessing surgical risk with prediction models, considerations for different surgical scenarios, anemia in surgical patients, and recent rule changes in baseball.