Myocardial ischemia is a frequent complication in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery and beta-blockers may exert a protective effect. The main benefit of beta-blockers in perioperative cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is believed to be linked to specific effects on myocardial oxygen supply and demand. beta-blockers may exert anti-inflammatory and anti-arrhythmic effects. Randomized clinical trials which evaluated the effects of beta-blockers on all-cause mortality in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery have yielded conflicting results. In 9 trials, 10,544 patients with non-cardiac surgery were randomized to beta-blockers (n = 5274) or placebo (n = 5270) and there were a total of 304 deaths. Patients randomized to beta-blockers group showed a 19% increased risk of all-cause mortality (odds ratio [OR] 1.19, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.95-1.50; p = 0.135). However, trials included in the meta-analysis differed in several aspects, and a significant degree of heterogeneity (I( 2) = 46.5%) was noted. A recent analysis showed that the surgical risk category had a substantial influence on the overall estimate of the effect of beta-blockers. Compared with patients in the intermediate-high-surgical-risk category, those in the high-risk category showed a 73% reduction in the risk of total mortality with beta-blockers compared with placebo (OR 0.27, 95% CI 0.10-0.71, p = 0.016). These data suggest that perioperative beta-blockers confer a benefit which is mostly limited to patients undergoing high-risk surgery.
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