IV beta blockers before angioplasty are safe, but offer no clinical benefit

Giving intravenous beta blockers before performing a coronary angioplasty in patients who had experienced the deadliest form of heart attack—ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)—was safe but did not reduce heart attack severity or improve blood flow from the heart’s main pumping chamber.

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