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  Vol. 165 No. 3, February 14, 2005 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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An Alternative View of Current Evidence in Support of Perioperative {beta}-Blockers

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We read with interest the studies by Siddiqui et al1 and Lindenauer et al.2 Each report has, as its raison d’être, the supposition that perioperative {beta}-blockade is the standard of care for the prevention of postoperative cardiac complications. Furthermore, both studies presume that physicians who do not prescribe {beta}-blockers are not practicing good perioperative medicine. We wish to express the contrarian view that the evidence supporting the recommendation for perioperative {beta}-blockade is insufficient and that a vast amount of research is still required in the field of perioperative risk reduction.

Two meta-analyses have pooled the data from randomized controlled studies of perioperative {beta}-blockade.3-4 Although both groups of reviewers found statistically significant reductions in myocardial infarction (MI), the pooled effect estimates were heavily weighted by 2 studies. One study was an interim analysis of an unblinded trial of highly selected, high-risk vascular patients.5 In the second study,6 the in-hospital incidence of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


AUTHOR INFORMATION
W. Scott Beattie, MD, PhD, FRCPC; Duminda N. Wijeysundera, MD; Peter T. Choi, MD, MSc(Epid), FRCPC







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