Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Welcome to another episode of our medicine-surgery consult series! If your case was just cancelled because you and your patient did not know to hold their new GLP-1 agonist and you’re wondering what to do in the interim, this may be the perfect time to tune into a quick refresher of diabetes quick-hits as it pertains to surgical teams. You’ve just finished rolling a patient up to the OR in the middle of the night after a gunshot wound to the chest, and now you need to deal with something even more intimidating – finishing admission orders on your patient with chronic, poorly controlled diabetes on 7 different medications. Join Dr. Katherine Neal and Ayman Ali as they go over some general principles and tips and tricks in this ever-growing and complicated patient cohort! Hosts: Katherine Neal, MD. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke Hospital. Ayman Ali, MD. General Surgery PGY-3, Duke University School of Medicine. Learning Objectives: General principles of in-patient diabetes management Review of common