The authors tested whether bisoprolol would protect patients at risk for cardiovascular complications undergoing surgery with spinalblock.
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Conclusions: Perioperative bisoprolol therapy did not affect cardiovascular outcome in these elderly at-risk patients undergoing surgery with spinalblock.
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The most common technique was regional anesthesia (41.4%), with spinalblock being the most widely used.
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Spinalblock could not be established in 5 patients.