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Perioperative Medication Management

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The management of a patient’s home medication regimen around a surgical procedure is an important component of perioperative medicine. At least half of patients undergoing surgery take routine medications. Clinicians must weigh the risk for a patient’s routine medications to cause perioperative harm vs. the risk of stopping the medication with regard to the underling medical condition. This chapter provides guidance for clinicians in this risk–benefit assessment while acknowledging that there is a general lack of outcomes data about routine medication management in the perioperative setting.

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

    Anna L. Golob M.D. & Tyler Lee M.D.

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Golob, A.L., Lee, T. (2015). Perioperative Medication Management. In: Jackson, M.B., Mookherjee, S., Hamlin, N.P. (eds) The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09366-6_4

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