University of Michigan Health System

Patients can safely skip pre-surgery stress tests and beta blockers

Published in State and Local Health Law Weekly, December 17th, 2009

Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before non-cardiac surgeries, according to a report by the University of Michigan released online this week.

Studies suggest such pre-operative tests and medications do not save lives and patients can skip them without suffering complications later, the U-M physicians write in a special report released ahead of print in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The article by U-M physicians appears as the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association release new guidelines showing pre-operative medications should be reserved for only...

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Source: State and Local Health Law Weekly (2009-12-17)

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