"This is an excellent opportunity to improve your care pathways, to help improve patient outcomes and really to optimise care throughout the continuum of the perioperative period."

This piece emphasises the importance of perioperative glucose management and describes evidence-based approaches for perioperative management throughout. What about pre-admission? During hospitalisation? What are the best practices for discharge?

This piece is complimented by "Perioperative Diabetes Clinic - How to set up and run" - which is soon to be released on TopMedTalk. Ensure you are subscribed to catch all of our exclusive free content.

For listeners who can't wait, it is worth checking out Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) directly here: www.ebpom.org

Presented by Kathryn Evans Kreider, DNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, Associate Clinical Professor, Duke University School of Nursing, Nurse Practitioner, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition; Duke University Medical Centre.