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  <title>Pre-Operative Geri Assessment: Vicky Tang and Houman Javedan</title>
  <description>&amp;amp;nbsp; We love getting requests from listeners for podcast topics.&amp;amp;nbsp; This request came from geriatricians we met at the annual American Geriatrics Society meeting in Chicago.&amp;amp;nbsp; They wanted to know more about what a geriatrician should do in a pre-operative risk assessment.&amp;amp;nbsp; 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 concerns? -Why do we do them?&amp;amp;nbsp; Recognizing we may have different motivations than our consultants (hint: stealth geriatrics) -How does the comprehensive geriatric assessment fit int? Do the 4Ms fit into pre-operative assessment if at all? (an entertaining disagreement ensued) -Must a geriatrician do this? -What is the  Geriatric Surgery Verification Program? -What’s the most important part of&amp;amp;nbsp; Many links from our guests below. And please forgive my Spanish on the song, I tried! Thanks to sons Kai and Renn on Ukulele and Bass for making it sound better. -Alex  From Vicky:   Systematic review of Prehab  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39655991/   Geriatric Surgery Verification Program  https://www.facs.org/quality-programs/accreditation-and-verification/geriatric-surgery-verification/&amp;amp;nbsp;   shared decision making in surgical patients  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40551447/&amp;amp;nbsp;    From Houman: Geriatric Surgical Co-management Evidence 1.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; Trauma survival with geriatric assessment 2022- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36102764/  2.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; Hip fracture survival benefit meta-analysis 2014- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23912859/  3.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; Elective abdominal surgery benefits POSH program 2018- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29299599/  4.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; POSH Program for Spine 2021- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33382460/  5.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; Elective orthopedic joints ED readmission decreases 2024 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39715294/  6.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; The need for geriatricians, tools and education models (aka Ms) are not enough - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30916758/   Sub Topics 7.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; Utility of minicog and where our improved local mortality of 18% and delirium of 11% reported - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27147687/ 8.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; Geriatrician performed CGA-FI best at predicting mortality in rib fractures 2025 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39800638/ 9.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; Geriatrician performed CGA-FI predicting mortality better than age in hip fractures 2024- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39007664/&amp;amp;nbsp; 10.&amp;amp;nbsp; Multidomain frailty assessment and surgery showing severely frail patients at risk of mortality even with low risk procedures (eg. Cystoscopy) - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31721994/ 11.&amp;amp;nbsp; Different outcomes for hip fracture surgery in the severely frail - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38892908/ 12.&amp;amp;nbsp; Complexity of aging physiology- example of prostaglandin based free water excretion in collecting duct of aging kidney first paragraph on page 360- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36948780/&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp;    </description>
  <author_name>GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast</author_name>
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