Patients can safely skip pre-surgery stress tests and beta blockers

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 16:42 in Health & Medicine

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before non-cardiac surgeries, according to a report by the University of Michigan released online this week.

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