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Many surgeons require GLP-1 agonists to be held for 1 to 3 weeks before procedures involving general anesthesia, specifically because of the delayed gastric emptying and aspiration risk

Tirzepatide was developed as a unimolecular dual agonist and moved through the SURPASS (type 2 diabetes) and SURMOUNT (obesity) Phase 3 programs to approval, becoming the first approved GLP-1/GIP dual agonist

Dosing errors have also occurred with compounded semaglutide, which many companies offer as an alternative to the GLP-1 medications Ozempic or Wegovy (these brand-name drugs are made by Novo Nordisk)

Both drugs use once-weekly subcutaneous injection with gradual dose escalation