Podcasts Health & Fitness Medicine The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast #219 Post-Op Care and Complications with Avital O’Glasser MD

#219 Post-Op Care and Complications with Avital O’Glasser MD

Published: June 15, 2020, 7 a.m.

Answers to common questions in post-op care with our Kashlak Chief of Perioperative Medicine Dr. Avital O’Glasser. She provides updates in delirium prevention, perioperative medication management, pain control, and even clarifies a lesson from Meredith Grey about causes of post-op fever.

 

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Credits
  • Written: Hannah Abrams MD, Avital O’Glasser MD
  • Produced by, Infographic and Cover Art by: Hannah Abrams MD
  • Hosts: Hannah Abrams MD; Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Paul Williams MD, FACP   
  • Editor: Avital O’Glasser MD (written materials); Clair Morgan of nodderly.com
  • Guest: Avital O’Glasser MD

 

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Time Stamps
  • 00:00 Sponsors
  • 00:30 Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
  • 02:53 Guest one-liner, Picks of the Week*: 12 Angry Men 1957 Movie; Hedwig and the Angry Inch Cast Recording; PCSSNow Buprenorphine Waiver Training for Medical Students
  • 09:28 Sponsor -Visit acponline.org/member
  • 10:17 Kashlak case; How to collaborate with our surgical colleagues
  • 13:45 Questions to ask at the time of transfer

  • 23:00 Routine Post-Op Care: Bowel regimen, pain control, delirium prevention, glucose, antihypertensives, and nausea
  • 44:25 Comanaging Complications and Fever/Tachycardia; Brief discussion of VTE prophylaxis

  • 57:55 Outro

 

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Goal

Listeners will effectively comanage perioperative patients with surgical colleagues.

 

Learning objectives

After listening to this episode listeners will…  

  1. Identify effective strategies to improve safety at the time of transfer acceptance.
  2. Develop an approach for asking appropriate perioperative questions to the surgical team.
  3. Recognize common mistakes that hospitalists make when accepting a transfer.
  4. Become familiar with evidence based post-operative care to prevent and treat common post-op complications
  5. Develop a differential diagnosis and management approach for post-op fever
  6. Develop a differential diagnosis and management approach for delirium

 

Disclosures

Dr O’Glasser reports no relevant financial disclosures. The Curbsiders report no relevant financial disclosures. 

 

Citation

O’Glasser AY, Abrams HR, Williams PN, Watto MF. “#219 Post-Op Care and Complications with Avital O’Glasser MD”. The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast. https://thecurbsiders.com/episode-list June 15, 2020.