Let’s talk preoperative management—Join general surgery resident Dr. Angela Hill for a discussion with expert trauma critical care surgeon Dr. Thoi H. Ngo. This episode of the Washington Manual of Surgery Podcast will focus on the preoperative assessment of patients and serves as an additional companion to Chapter 1 of the 9th edition of the bestselling Washington Manual of Surgery.
In this episode of the Washington Manual of Surgery Podcast, Drs. Ngo and Hill discuss surgical decision-making in a “flip-the-script” Board-style (versus our usual) discussion of an elderly patient presenting to the emergency department with abdominal pain, focusing not just on the clinical management but functional status, preoperative optimization, and decision-making capacity.