{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"TopMedTalk Classic: Managing Perioperative Risk in Frail Patients","description":"This month\u2019s TopMedTalk Classic has been digitally remastered for you and we\u2019ve added the Q&A which wasn\u2019t part of the original podcast. We\u2019re featuring a talk first broadcast in 2018, featuring BobbieJean Sweitzer, Systems Director, Preoperative Medicine, Inova Health, Falls Church, Virginia, and Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia. BobbieJean discusses whether perioperative risk in frail patients can be managed, emphasizing that current risk tools underweight frailty and functional outcomes. Using cases and data from U.S. nursing home residents, she highlights high postoperative mortality and functional decline after procedures such as colectomy and breast surgery, arguing for multidisciplinary, patient-inclusive decision-making that considers nonoperative and palliative options. Sweitzer describes Northwestern\u2019s implementation of quick frailty and cognitive screening, plus interventions including anemia treatment, nutritional optimization, and elements of prehabilitation, noting evidence that screening can trigger goal clarification and more palliative care consults. In the Q&A, speakers debate frailty-tool consensus, motivating patient engagement, funding prehab services, interpretation of mortality reductions after screening, and strategies to influence surgeons\u2019 decision-making. Original podcasts: https:\/\/topmedtalk.libsyn.com\/periop-medicine-sig18-can-perioperative-risk-in-the-frail-be-managed TopMedTalk: Periop SIG18 | Perioperative frailty - panel discussion ","author_name":"TopMedTalk","author_url":"https:\/\/www.topmedtalk.com","html":"