With many years of experience in medicine, Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif is the founder and medical director of both Vanguard Physician Group and Anthem Hospice in Mesa, Arizona. With experience in palliative care and hospice care, Dr. Khalid Shirif is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
ACS is a nationwide organization formed to improve services for patients. To safeguard standards and ensure optimal and ethical service, ACS offers numerous programs, including Strong for Surgery. Through Strong for Surgery, ACS identifies and evaluates various practices that may improve the health of patients before they undergo surgery.
Strong for Surgery encourages medical facilities to include checklists in the preoperative stage. Checklists aim to uncover risk factors that could lead to complications during or after surgery.
These checklists focus on eight areas: medication management, nutrition, smoking cessation, glycemic control, medication use, delirium, prehabilitation, patient directives, and safe and effective pain control. All of these interventions contribute to lower-risk surgeries.
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