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GLP-1 Drugs and Hand Surgery: What Surgeons Need to Know

CohortModerate evidence
The takeaway

Review of GLP-1 drug implications for common hand procedures covers wound healing effects, anesthesia considerations, and perioperative management for this growing patient population.

Key finding

Review of GLP-1 drug implications for common hand procedures covers wound healing effects, anesthesi

What the researchers found

Review of GLP-1 drug implications for common hand procedures covers wound healing effects, anesthesia considerations, and perioperative management for this growing patient population.

Why it matters

Relevant to peptide therapeutics.

The numbers in context

Study evaluated complications, readmissions, and reoperations following common hand procedures in GLP-1 users versus non-users.

How the study worked

In publication.

Who was studied

Patients undergoing common hand procedures with or without preoperative GLP-1 drug use

What this study cannot tell us

In publication.

How to read the evidence

Based on study design.

When this study was published

Published in 2025.

The bigger picture

Advances peptide therapeutic knowledge.

Questions still open

  • Long-term implications?
  • Comparison to evidence?
  • Next research?

Common questions

What does this mean?
Review of GLP-1 drug implications for common hand procedures covers wound healing effects, anesthesia considerations, and perioperative management for this growing patient population.
How reliable?
Consult publication.

Read the original research

Glucagon-like peptide-1 Agonists and Common Hand Procedures: Perioperative and Postoperative Risks and Complications.

The Journal of hand surgery, 50(11), 1297-1303

Citation

Amen, Troy B; Ibrahim, Lina I; Gillinov, Stephen M; Torabian, Kaveh A; Dean, Michael C; Liimakka, Adriana; Lee, Steve K. (2025). Glucagon-like peptide-1 Agonists and Common Hand Procedures: Perioperative and Postoperative Risks and Complications.. The Journal of hand surgery, 50(11), 1297-1303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhsa.2025.08.004