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Beta blockers in premedication of the cardiac patient — a must in 2003?!

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Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.

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Myocardial cardiac events are the most common medical complication of surgery, occurring in 2–5% of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery and as many as 30% of patients undergoing vascular surgery. Perioperative cardiac events are associated with a mortality rate of nearly 60% per event, prolonged hospitalisation, and high costs [1, 2]. One study found that postoperative ischaemia increased the odds of postoperative myocardial events 21-fold [3].

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Klimek, M. (2004). Beta blockers in premedication of the cardiac patient — a must in 2003?!. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2189-1_8

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