1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Anaesthesiology (INCRAA - 2009), 30 Jan – 01 Feb 2009 · Nehru Auditorium, AIIMS New Delhi

The perioperative use of Beta blockers has been one universally accepted strategy to ensure that cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among cardiac patients, both for cardiac and non-cardiac surgery, be reduced. This led to many research protocols which included RCTs, blinded and non- blinded, and perhaps a lot more unpublished studies across the world. The latest published guideline is embodied in the ACC/AHA 2007 Perioperative Guidelines, which states the following Recommendations for Beta blocker Medical Therapy: Class I (useful) 1.