Surgical procedures and some types of medical examinations include preoperative preparation of the patient, premedication before the procedure, and initiation of specific therapy after the procedure (e.g. anticoagulation prophylaxis for deep vein thrombosis, prevention of nausea and vomiting, pain therapy, antibiotic prophylaxis). An equally important area is the management of chronic treatment if established, in terms of leaving it unchanged, temporarily withdrawing it, or bridging it with other therapies. These areas are highly inter- and intra-individually specific (depending on the patient's characteristics, the nature of the planned procedure, its urgency, etc.) and belong to the hands of specialists. The aim of this chapter is instead to highlight the high-risk drug groups that require periprocedural management and groups in which it is, on the other hand, redundant; for selected groups, we will then discuss more specific procedures and potential risks; we will also outline the risks of drug dosage forms interchanges, for example, in patients without oral intake capability.

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The issue is logically complemented by the question of drug administration into the tubes. Although this is mainly a pharmaceutical and technological issue (technology of drug dosage forms), we have prepared a short introduction to this issue. You can use this knowledge in a wide range of situations, not only in the perioperative period. Join us for this approximately 25-minute video lecture. You will find the handout for the video lecture below.

Handouts for the video lecture can be found here:

Try now to test your knowledge of perioperative drug management and drug administration via tubes.