Perioperative beta-blockers for preventing surgery-related mortality and morbidity

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Volumn 2014, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Blessberger, Hermann ^a   Kammler, Juergen ^a   Domanovits, Hans ^b   Schlager, Oliver ^b   Wildner, Brigitte ^c   Azar, Danyel ^d   Schillinger, Martin ^b   Wiesbauer, Franz ^b   Steinwender, Clemens ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Department of General Surgery   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PLACEBO;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG SAFETY; GENDER; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGERY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84926411524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004476.pub2     Document Type: Review

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