Perioperative beta-blockers in noncardiac surgery: Evolution of the evidence

  • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
  • July 2008,
  • 75
  • (7)
  • 513-519;

ABSTRACT

After studies in the 1990s suggested that beta-blockers offer substantial benefits when given before surgery, several national organizations endorsed the perioperative use of these drugs as a best practice in certain patients. However, subsequent research has cast doubt on whether it is appropriate to use these drugs as widely as suggested by those early studies.

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