General Surgery

Change comes after widespread outcry

Balancing aspiration risk with the consequences of medication discontinuation

Question of when to test involves navigating patient privacy, legal, ethical concerns

Conundrum of holding meds continues following conflicting reports of aspiration events

Excess postoperative strokes, and accompanying racial disparities, tied to any beta-blocker use

No impact on safety outcomes after laparoscopic surgery

If they don't, things could get complicated

Pause on ACE inhibitors, ARBs yields more acute hypertension with no prevention of hypotension

Why didn't someone think of this sooner?

Outcomes improved with values approaching 10 g/dL

High mortality in outbreak linked to anesthesia in Mexico

Some anesthesiologists think current guidelines don't go far enough

Not a "harmless substance," researcher maintains

Or else run the risk of aspirating under anesthesia due to delayed gastric emptying