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Did Skin Prep Fuel This Fire? - February 2017 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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comorbidities, the urgency and nature of the surgery, the anticipated need for high-dose opioids, and the availability of post-operative mon- itoring for opioid-related adverse events. • Advise high-risk patients to consider diagnosis and treatment. Finally, advise patients identified as high risk to tell their primary care physicians, so they can be further evaluated. OSA is associated with numerous poor outcomes, including risk of death, cardiovascular events and average number of days hospitalized, and treatment appears to improve these outcomes. It's important to have a clear diagnosis for patients with OSA to have ongoing, long-term management. OSM J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 7 • O U T PA T I E N TS U R G E R Y. N E T • 1 3 7

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