Perioperative Optimization
Show: UAB Med Cast
Jeffrey Simmons MD discusses perioperative medicine and specifically preoperative optimization.
He shares best practices and the several modifiable preoperative conditions that if improved upon increase a patients chance of having a better outcome. He shares how UAB is equipped to manage preoperative optimization.
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