[Position statement: surgery and diabetes mellitus (Update 2023)]. / Positionspapier: Operation und Diabetes mellitus (Update 2023).

ABSTRACT

This position statement reflects the perspective of the Austrian Diabetes Association concerning the perioperative management of people with diabetes mellitus based on the available scientific evidence. The paper covers necessary preoperative examinations from an internal/diabetological point of view as well as the perioperative metabolic control by means of oral antihyperglycemic and/or insulin therapy.