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Pre-Operative Geri Assessment: Vicky Tang and Houman Javedan
We love getting requests from listeners for podcast topics. This request came from geriatricians we met at the annual American Geriatrics Society meeting in Chicago. They wanted to know more about what a geriatrician should do in a pre-operative risk assessment. So we invited Vicky Tang and Houman Javedan, two geriatricians and leaders in the pre-operative assessment and prehab space, to talk with us.
As is our style, we backed up to some bigger questions, including:
-Why do patients need a geriatric assessment pre-operatively?-Why are our surgical colleagues asking us? Is it due to liability…
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