question about preop HbA1c

[Rebecca Margulies]

hi guys!

what do you use as a cutoff for HbA1c and elective surgery?

different if mesh or no mesh?

i just did a lit search and found almost nothing good on the topic. does anyone have any good guidelines or papers on this topic?

thank you!

xoxo, 

b

[Washington, Blair]

I use low 7s as an arbitrary, completely unsubstantiated number.  I don’t differentiate between mesh and no mesh.  Hope everyone is well.  B

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[Rebecca Margulies]

Thanks Blair! :-)

[Cassandra]

Yeah, I've used 7, but I've only done so for mesh, and not too consistently either

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[Christina Gaupp]

7 for me too, but I've been known to operate on people with much higher values :)

[Elisa Trowbridge]

 I tend to base it more on a trend but with the goal of getting closer to less than 8. 

Elisa