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This review outlines the main features, clinical effects, clearance, potential uses, and adverse effects of various beta blockers to guide evidence-based clinical choice.
Provides an evidence-based overview of the clinical effects, clearance, potential uses, and adverse effects of different types of beta blockers.
May guide beta-blocker selection in practice; leaves open need for updated head-to-head trials in contemporary populations.
After approximately 50 years of development and refinement, there are a significant number of beta blockers available to the clinician today. These medications differ in clinical effect and clearance from the body. This review presents the nurse with the main features of the different types of beta blocker and explains the factors that guide the choice of drug in particular pathologies. This information will give the practitioner an evidence-based understanding of the potential uses and adverse effects which are associated with this class of drugs.
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Ehsan Khan (2006) reported a review. Beta blockers was evaluated. This review outlines the main features, clinical effects, clearance, potential uses, and adverse effects of various beta blockers to guide evidence-based clinical choice.
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