Perioperative management of HIV infected patients

Perioperative Management of HIV Infected Patients is a recently released guideline from the New York State Department of Health.  Some of the considerations when formulating the guideline were the risk to the surgical team, as well as pre and postoperative assessment of hepatic and renal dysfunction, coronary artery disease and cardiac risk, coagulopathy, thrombocytopenia, and neutropenia, active alcohol or substance use, history of prior infection with MRSA, and any drug allergies the patient may have.