Adding a beta-blocker prior to surgery used to be routine. Recent data however, challenges conventional thinking. A retrospective study suggests that patients treated with a beta-blocker pre-operatively had a higher rate of cardiac events.
Granted this was a retrospective study, but I can see the use of beta-blockers being curtailed, especially in low-risk patients.
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