Perioperative beta-blockers for preventing surgery-related mortality and morbidity in adults undergoing cardiac surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: We found no evidence of a difference in early all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular events, hypotension and bradycardia. However, there may be a reduction in atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias when beta-blockers are used. A larger sample size is likely to increase the certainty of this evidence. Four studies awaiting classification may alter the conclusions of this review.
PMID: 31544227 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - September 22, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Blessberger H, Lewis SR, Pritchard MW, Fawcett LJ, Domanovits H, Schlager O, Wildner B, Kammler J, Steinwender C Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research