{"id":296489,"date":"2025-11-20T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296489\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:38:09","slug":"anaesthetists-forced-to-cancel-procedures-because-of-patients-keeping-quiet-about-glp-1-receptor-agonists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296489\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaesthetists forced to cancel procedures because of patients keeping quiet about GLP-1 receptor agonists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing trend of patients arriving for surgery without telling doctors they are taking GLP-1 receptor agonists is risking catastrophic consequences, anaesthetists warn.<\/p>\n<p>The agents delay gastric emptying, which may increase the risk of pulmonary aspiration during induction, forcing doctors to cancel procedures at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>With prescription numbers increasing and new indications emerging, the president of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) says the problem will only grow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s becoming clear that doctors need to ask patients directly whether they\u2019re taking Ozempic-type drugs like semaglutide,\u201d Professor David Story told AusDoc.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A growing trend of patients arriving for surgery without telling doctors they are taking GLP-1 receptor agonists is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[118112,64,63,91550,137,490,44,4390,1369,7532],"class_list":{"0":"post-296489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-anaesthesia","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-glp-1-ra","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-medication","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-obesity","16":"tag-surgery","17":"tag-type-2-diabetes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}