Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine: Clinical Pearls, 2nd Edition, April 2025

Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine: Clinical Pearls, 2nd Edition, April 2025

This concise high-yield clinical reference guides physicians and their clinical teams through the decision-making process of assessing patient risk prior to surgery

Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine: Clinical Pearls, Second Edition focuses on the critical process of assessing and managing patients with medical comorbidities before undergoing surgical procedures. The book provides validated risk assessment tools and mitigation strategies for frequently encountered comorbidities.

Emphasizing risk factors and filled with clinical pearls for postoperative complications, this thorough, expertly written, updated resource covers perioperative medication management; cardiac, pulmonary, and frailty risk indices with modification strategies; diabetes management using target-specific anticoagulants; and complex perioperative cases.

Features:
– NEW chapters on cardiac biomarkers, postoperative nausea and vomiting, and postoperative urinary retention
– Reflects the most current guidelines and recommendations from the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association
– Highlights the most impactful references for each topical area
– Tables throughout convey massive amounts of information for quick access
– Provides need-to-know evidence-based information that can immediately be applied in clinical practice
– Key takeaways on preoperative evaluation, testing, anesthesia, and medication management

About the author

Steven Cohn

Dr. Cohn is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is the former Director of the Medical Consultation Service at Jackson Memorial Hospital and Medical Director of the UHealth Preoperative Assessment Center (UPAC) and Medical Consultation Service at the University of Miami Hospital, having relocated to Miami after 30 years at the State University of New York – Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He served as the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Associate Medical Director for Performance Improvement at Downstate, and the Director of the Preoperative Medical Consultation Clinic and Medical Consultation Service at Kings County Hospital Center. He was responsible for education and supervision of over 1100 senior medical residents in both inpatient and ambulatory care settings, and he has evaluated over 30,000 patients preoperatively.

Dr. Cohn is a Master of the American College of Physicians (ACP), a senior fellow of the Society for Hospital Medicine (SHM), fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), and a board member of the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI). He has given over 400 CME lectures, authored/edited three books and over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters, and in 2017, he received the Society for Hospital Medicine award for Excellence in Teaching.