Mazen Al-Mansour, MBBS
CHICAGO—Although optimizing patients before hernia surgery is a worthwhile clinical target, the pendulum of such optimization may have swung too far to the point where otherwise worthy patients are being denied much-needed care. In a presentation at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Hernia Society, Mazen Al-Mansour, MBBS, discussed this phenomenon, along with relevant research.
“The premise of preoperative optimization really revolves