According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists consensus guidelines, if the patient has reported gastrointestinal side effects of nausea or vomiting due to a GLP-1 receptor agonist, they must be considered at increased risk for complications requiring full-stomach precautions for anesthesia
The encouraging part is that new trials are unlocking more uses every year, and some clinics including ours are already helping patients with chronic pain and autoimmune disease access these medications, including in microdoses, even when they dont fit the traditional weight-loss criteria
Compounded injectable semaglutide GLP-1 has been widely available for awhile, he noted, yet Eli Lilly has been beating numbers and just put up a huge Q4 beat this week by 10% on Zepbound alone, he wrote in a note
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