Post by Sivesh Kathir Kamarajah

General Surgery Registrar (ST3) | NIHR Doctoral Fellow, University of Birmingham | RCS England - AUGIS Associate SSL for Upper GI Surgery

Delighted to share our new paper on the safety of pre-operative GLP-1 in people undergoing surgery in eClinicalMedicine ā€“ The Lancet Discovery Science With the growing guidance around the safety, this study found no safety implications to using pre-operative GLP-1 in patients undergoing surgery. šŸ–‡ļø https://lnkd.in/eNEeWESd At present the routine use of GLP-1 is limited given the lack of clinical- and cost-effectiveness of wider use in surgical population. Watch this space! Sheraz Markar Aneel Bhangu Matt Lee Rakesh Heer Dmitri Nepogodiev Natalie Blencowe James Glasbey Deborah Stocken Athanasios (Thanos) Saratzis John Findlay Samir Pathak Xavier Griffin

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