Preoperative care > Beta-blocker evidence table
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| Patients | Intervention | Comparison | Outcome | Results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mortality | Stroke | Beta-blocker toxicity | ||||||||
| Rx | Control | Rx | Control | Rx | Control | |||||
| 1066 patients: •estimated risk of perioperative cardiovascular death of ≥ 1% • RCRI = 2: ~100% • < 1% vascular surgery | Bisoprolol • Started a median of 34 days preop • Minimum allowed HR*: >50 bpm | Open label | Mortality at 30 days | 1.9% | 3.0% | 0.8% | 0.6% | Heart failure, clinically significant bradycardia or hypotension: | ||
| 0.6% | 0.4% | |||||||||
| POISE[2] 2008 Partially funded by AstraZeneca | 8351 patients: • 42% vascular surgery • RCRI = 2: uncertain | Metoprolol succinate • Started day of surgery • Minimum allowed HR*: > 50 bpm | Placebo | Mortality at two weeks | Overall | 1% | 0.5% | Clinically significant hypotension: | ||
| 3.1% | 2.3% | 15% | 9.7% | |||||||
| Vascular pts | ||||||||||
| Significant benefit on composite events. Mortality by surgery type not reported. | ||||||||||
| BBSA[3] 2007 Partially funded by industry. | 224 patients: • 1% vascular surgery • RCRI = 2: uncertain | Bisoprolol • Started day of surgery Minimum allowed HR*: > 50bpm | Placebo | Mortality at one year | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.8% | 0% | Hypotension: | |
| 0% | 2.7% | |||||||||
| DIPOM[4] 2006 Partially funded by AstraZeneca | 921 patients: • 7% vascular surgery • RCRI > 2: uncertain • All had diabetes | Metoprolol succinate • Started 0-1 days preop • Minimum allowed HR*: >55 bpm | Placebo | Mortality at a median of 18 months | 16% | 16% | 0.4% | 0% | Hypotension reported as an ADR: | |
| 0.4% | 0.2% | |||||||||
| MaVS[5] 2006 No industry funding. | 496 patients: • 100% vascular surgery • RCRI = 2: 40% | Metoprolol • Start: day of surgery • Minimum allowed HR*: > 50 bpm while awake; >45 bpm while asleep. | Placebo | Hospital mortality | 0% | 1.6% | 2.0% | 1.6% | Intraoperative hypotension treated: | |
| 46% | 34% | |||||||||
| POBBLE[6] 2005 No industry funding. | 103 patients: • 100% vascular surgery • RCRI > 2: uncertain | Metoprolol • Start with test dose one day preop • Minimum allowed HR*: > 50 bpm | Placebo (anesthesiologists were not blinded) | Mortality at 30 days | 3% | 1% | 2% | 0% | Intraoperative inotropes given: | |
| 92% | 64% | |||||||||
| Decrease[7] 1999 Uncertain funding. | 112 patients: • 100% vascular surgery • RCRI = 2: uncertain, at least 67% • Abnl stress echo: 100% | Bisoprolol • Started a median of 37 days preop • Minimum allowed HR*: > 50 bpm | Open label | Mortality at 30 days | 3.4 | 17.0 | Not reported | Discontinuation of study drug due to ADRs: | ||
| 0% | 0% | |||||||||
| Mangano/ MSPI[8] 1996 No industry funding. | 200 patients: • 41% vascular surgery • RCRI > 2: uncertain | Atenolol • Minimum allowed HR*: > 55 bpm | Placebo | Hospital mortality | 4% | 2% | 4%[10] | 1%[10] | Intraoperative inotropes given:[10] | |
| 13% | 13% | |||||||||
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* Minimum allowed HR. The lowest heart rate allowed before beta-blockers were withheld.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dunkelgrun M, Boersma E, Schouten O, et al. (June 2009). Bisoprolol and fluvastatin for the reduction of perioperative cardiac mortality and myocardial infarction in intermediate-risk patients undergoing noncardiovascular surgery: a randomized controlled trial (DECREASE-IV). Ann. Surg. 249 (6): 921–6. DOI:10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181a77d00. PMID 19474688.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Devereaux PJ, Yang H, Yusuf S, et al. (May 2008). Effects of extended-release metoprolol succinate in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery (POISE trial): a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 371 (9627): 1839–47. DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60601-7. PMID 18479744.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Zaugg M, Bestmann L, Wacker J, et al. (July 2007). Adrenergic receptor genotype but not perioperative bisoprolol therapy may determine cardiovascular outcome in at-risk patients undergoing surgery with spinal block: the Swiss Beta Blocker in Spinal Anesthesia (BBSA) study: a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial with 1-year follow-up. Anesthesiology 107 (1): 33–44. DOI:10.1097/01.anes.0000267530.62344.a4. PMID 17585213.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Juul AB, Wetterslev J, Gluud C, et al. (June 2006). Effect of perioperative beta blockade in patients with diabetes undergoing major non-cardiac surgery: randomised placebo controlled, blinded multicentre trial. BMJ 332 (7556): 1482. DOI:10.1136/bmj.332.7556.1482. PMID 16793810. PMC 1482337.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Yang H, Raymer K, Butler R, Parlow J, Roberts R (November 2006). The effects of perioperative beta-blockade: results of the Metoprolol after Vascular Surgery (MaVS) study, a randomized controlled trial. Am. Heart J. 152 (5): 983–90. DOI:10.1016/j.ahj.2006.07.024. PMID 17070177.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Brady AR, Gibbs JS, Greenhalgh RM, Powell JT, Sydes MR (April 2005). Perioperative beta-blockade (POBBLE) for patients undergoing infrarenal vascular surgery: results of a randomized double-blind controlled trial. J. Vasc. Surg. 41 (4): 602–9. DOI:10.1016/j.jvs.2005.01.048. PMID 15874923.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Poldermans D, Boersma E, Bax JJ, et al. (December 1999). The effect of bisoprolol on perioperative mortality and myocardial infarction in high-risk patients undergoing vascular surgery. Dutch Echocardiographic Cardiac Risk Evaluation Applying Stress Echocardiography Study Group. N. Engl. J. Med. 341 (24): 1789–94. PMID 10588963.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Mangano DT, Layug EL, Wallace A, Tateo I (December 1996). Effect of atenolol on mortality and cardiovascular morbidity after noncardiac surgery. Multicenter Study of Perioperative Ischemia Research Group. N. Engl. J. Med. 335 (23): 1713–20. PMID 8929262.
- ↑ Schouten O et al. Fluvastatin and bisoprolol for the reduction of perioperative cardiac mortality and morbidity in high-risk patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery: rationale and design of the DECREASE-IV study. Am Heart J. 2004 Dec;148(6):1047-52. DOI:10.1016/j.ahj.2004.05.046 PMID 15632892
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Wallace A, Layug B, Tateo I, et al. (January 1998). Prophylactic atenolol reduces postoperative myocardial ischemia. McSPI Research Group. Anesthesiology 88 (1): 7–17. PMID 9447850.

