Wegovy and Ozempic are brand names for a drug called semaglutide.
The injectable drug Ozempic is shown Saturday, July 1, 2023, in Houston. It’s typical for surgery patients to be told not to eat or drink anything for a period prior to operation in order to prevent vomiting and subsequent health complications during their procedure.
“Because of the delayed gastric emptying, we’re finding more and more people are arriving for surgery with basically full stomachs, and that’s the one thing we don’t want when we’re doing an elective operation,” said Jodie Emerson, president elect of the Michigan Association of Nurse Anesthetists and a practicing nurse anesthetist in Alma.
If food from the stomach comes back up the esophagus and into the back of your throat, it can make its way into your lungs and potentially lead to pneumonia. Patients who take a GLP-1 agonist daily should not take their dose the day of their procedure or surgery. Those who take it weekly should not take their dose the week prior to the procedure.
If they are on these medications, their care team can take an ultrasound to see the contents of their stomach before surgery and take precautions.
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