The American Diabetes Association (ADA)“Standards of Care in Diabetes” includes the
ADA's current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components …

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways were first introduced almost a quarter
of a century ago and represent a paradigm shift in perioperative care that reduced …

Patient safety is a core principle of anesthesia care worldwide. The specialty of
anesthesiology has been a leader in medicine for the past half century in pursuing patient …

Importance Real-world surgical practice often lags behind the best scientific evidence. For
example, although optimizing comorbidities such as smoking and morbid obesity before …

Background Preoperative nutrition risk is often underrecognized and undertreated. The
perioperative nutrition screen (PONS) was recently introduced as an efficient tool to rapidly …

Objective Avoidable case cancellations within 24 h reduce operating room (OR) efficiency,
add unnecessary costs, and may have physical and emotional consequences for patients …

Importance The health of the US population is decreasing, and novel strategies are needed
to reverse the trajectory. The surgical episode may be an opportune time to screen for poor …

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BACKGROUND: Many day-of-surgery cancellations are avoidable, and different strategies
are used to prevent these costly adverse events. Despite these past analyses and …

Cigarette smoking is associated with pulmonary and cardiovascular disease and confers
increased postoperative morbidity and mortality. Smoking cessation in the weeks before …