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Diabetes Mellitus Does Not Increase Risk of Surgical Complications after Elective Total Knee Replacement Surgery
Does uncontrolled diabetes mellitus increase risk for post-operative complications after elective joint replacement surgery?
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Surgery’s Waterboys
Exposing the comanagement MacGuffin
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Elderly Patients & Pneumonia, Metoprolol after Vascular Surgery, and More
Elderly Pneumonia Patients after Antibiotic Switch Nathan RV, Rhew DC, Bratzler DW, et al. In-hospital observation after antibiotic switch in...
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What pre-operative cardiac evaluation of patients undergoing intermediate-risk surgery is most appropriate?
The orthopedic service asks you to evaluate a 76-year-old woman with a hip fracture
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Drug Stents and Surgery
Consider length of device use before noncardiac procedures
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Safety after Surgery
An 86-year-old female with Alzheimer’s dementia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was admitted with...
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Civil War Surgery
Dr. McGuire Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and a small group of men rode at dusk along the still-steaming battlefield perimeter on May 2, 1863....