title: Perioperative management of the patient with diabetes mellitus undergoing outpatient or elective surgery.
abstract: Perioperative management for elective or outpatient surgical procedures should be tailored to the individual patient with diabetes mellitus. The approach will vary depending on whether the patient is insulin requiring or not and whether recent diabetes control has been good or poor. Elevated blood glucose prior to surgery will often improve with correction of the condition requiring surgery.
mesh_terms: D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D011300:Preoperative Care; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative