Various articles from; BMJ Open, Journal of Bone Joint Surgery American volume, Diabetes Care, Annals of Surgery | Journal Club

This piece ploughs into some of the academic papers that have provoked discussion recently in the perioperative community. We discuss the following papers: Risk factors for opioid-induced respiratory depression in surgical patients: a systematic review and meta-analyses. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30552274 Increased Postoperative Glucose Variability Is Associated with Adverse Outcomes Following Total Joint Arthroplasty. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29975266 Effect of A1C and Glucose on Postoperative Mortality in Noncardiac and Cardiac Surgeries. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29440113 Frailty as a Predictor of Death or New Disability After Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30048320 Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guest Paul Grant, Hospitalist and Director of Perioperative and Consultant Medicine at the University of Michigan. -- Do you have your ticket to the Dallas Master's Course being organised in March by EBPOM USA yet? Find out more here: https://www.ebpom.org/EBPOM-USA-2019 As a TopMedTalk subscriber you can get a 20% discount for 1 person, or a 50% discount for a team. Just use the promo code "DAL 20" if you're solo or "EDAL 50" if you're coming as a group.