How to Advise Your Patients
Health concerns have swirled around low- and no-calorie sweeteners (LNCSs) for more than a century. Even now, research findings regularly contradict each other. Despite low certainty overall, in 2023, the World Health Organization suggested they not be used “as a means of achieving weight control or reducing the risk of noncommunicable diseases.” There wasn’t enough […]
How to Manage Patients on GLP-1s Before Surgery?
Guidance from professional societies on how to handle the risk for pulmonary aspiration during general anesthesia or deep sedation for patients taking glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) continues to evolve, as does the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) labeling for the drugs. The changes can be challenging to keep up with, and […]