Clinical inquiries. Which patients undergoing noncardiac surgery benefit from perioperative beta-blockers?
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z Evidence summary Studies without risk stratification find little benefit from beta-blockers A systematic review including 25 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluated perioperative beta-blocker therapy for noncardiac surgery in a total of 2722 patients who were not stratified according to cardiac risk status.1 Perioperative beta-blockers produced no significant effect on: • all-cause mortality (odds ratio [OR]=0.78; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.33–1.87), Jamie Haynes, MD and Gary Kelsberg, MD Valley Family Medicine Residency, Renton, Wash
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of family practice
دوره 57 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008