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Perioperative Medicine Consultation

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Surgery is commonly performed every day throughout the world, with a growing number of procedures in medically complex patients. Both surgery and anesthesia have inherent risks, and medicine consultants are often involved in the perioperative evaluation and management of surgical patients to help reduce perioperative risks. Models of perioperative medical care include consultative and co-management, with an increasing number of healthcare systems focusing on co-management services.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Ronald Huang

  2. Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Divya Gollapudi

  3. Department of Medicine, University of Washington and VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA

    Paul B. Cornia

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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Molly Blackley Jackson

  2. Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Ronald Huang

  3. Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Elizabeth Kaplan

  4. Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal MedicineUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Somnath Mookherjee

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Huang, R., Gollapudi, D., Cornia, P.B. (2020). Perioperative Medicine Consultation. In: Jackson, M., Huang, R., Kaplan, E., Mookherjee, S. (eds) The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19704-9_1

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