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The following sections represent typical, uncomplicated postoperative courses for surgeries typically encountered as a medicine consultant. The information is selected from a medical, rather than a surgical, point of view. Clearly, every postoperative course is different. It may have been years since an internist has seen a post-op surgical patient—therefore our goal is to give the internist a general sense of a patient’s postoperative course, and to highlight surgical issues that may impact other medical diagnoses and treatments. As always, it is no substitute for communicating with the surgery team.
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Mitchell, K.J., Kaplan, E., Sokol-Hessner, L., Jackson, M.B. (2013). Surgical Procedures Overview. In: Wong, C., Hamlin, N. (eds) The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3220-3_40
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