glp 1 drugs and anesthesia GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) tirzepatide (Mounjaro) have become incredibly common in diabetes and weight-management care, and they're now showing up more and more in the perioperative setting. These GLP-1 drugs and aspiration risk

A sense of impending doom

A major open question at this point is how the spending impact of these drugs might compare to the avoided cost of alternative treatments

Their conclusions similarly highlight the advantages of GLP-1RAs for weight and select metabolic/clinical phenotypes but explicitly note that the evidence chain for long-term follow-up, lean PCOS, and reproductive endpoints (ovulation, pregnancy, and live birth) remains weak

I would wake up sweating and panicking

However, if the medication has been exposed to temperatures above these limits or has been frozen, it should be discarded immediately

Safety, tolerability, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of albiglutide, a long-acting glucagon-like peptide-1 mimetic, in healthy subjects