Anesthesia and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists: proceed with caution!

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic Florida, 4500 San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, USA. jones.philip2@mayo.edu.
² Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Editorial

Philip M Jones et al. Can J Anaesth. 2023 Aug.

. 2023 Aug;70(8):1281-1286.

doi: 10.1007/s12630-023-02550-y. Epub 2023 Jul 19.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic Florida, 4500 San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, USA. jones.philip2@mayo.edu.
² Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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Comment in

Rates of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist use and aspiration events associated with anesthesia at a Canadian academic teaching centre.
Milne AD, Berry MA, Ellis MW, Dobson GR. Milne AD, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2024 May;71(5):673-675. doi: 10.1007/s12630-024-02761-x. Epub 2024 Apr 8. Can J Anaesth. 2024. PMID: 38589738 No abstract available.

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