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Update in Perioperative Medicine: Updates, Advances, Controversies in Perioperative Care

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Perioperative care should involve a comprehensive evaluation of the patient, risk assessment of various complications, suggesting ways to reduce the complications, working on optimization of the patient’s chronic medical conditions and managing them through the perioperative period. Hospitalists have an important role to play as medical consultants in the perioperative period.

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Prasad Ravipati, L.N. (2018). Update in Perioperative Medicine: Updates, Advances, Controversies in Perioperative Care. In: Conrad, K. (eds) Clinical Approaches to Hospital Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64774-6_11

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