Patients can safely skip pre-surgery stress tests and beta blockers, study suggests
Friday, December 11, 2009 - 01:21
in Health & Medicine
Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before noncardiac surgeries, according to a new report. Studies suggest such pre-operative tests and medications do not save lives and patients can skip them without suffering complications later.