Letters
Perioperative β blockade
European perioperative β blockade guidelines must be changed immediately to safeguard patients
BMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5768 (Published 24 September 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g5768
- Stephen N Bolsin, specialist anaesthetist1,
- Mark Colson, specialist anaesthetist2
- 1Geelong Hospital, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia
- 2St John of God Geelong Hospital, Geelong
- steveb{at}barwonhealth.org.au
We were pleased to see that the European Society of Cardiology partially corrected its erroneous 2009 recommendations on perioperative β blockade.1 2 However, the Joint Task Force still included the widely discredited study of Mangano et al, even though its …
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