Practice Guideline: Focused Update 2009 ACCF/AHA Focused Update on Perioperative Beta Blockade A the THE 2007 GUIDELINES ON PERIOPERATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR EVALUATION AND CARE FOR NONCARDIAC SURGERY Practice Guideline: Focused Update

2009 WRITING GROUP TO REVIEW NEW EVIDENCE AND UPDATE THE 2007 GUIDELINES ON PERIOPERATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR EVALUATION AND CARE FOR NONCARDIAC SURGERY Kirsten E. Fleischmann, MD, MPH, FACC, Chair; Joshua A. Beckman, MD, FACC*; Christopher E. Buller, MD, FACC†; Hugh Calkins, MD, FACC, FAHA‡; Lee A. Fleisher, MD, FACC, FAHA§; William K. Freeman, MD, FACC ; James B. Froehlich, MD, MPH, FACC†; Edward K. Kasper, MD, FACC, FAHA†; Judy R. Kersten, MD, FACC¶; John F. Robb, MD, FACC, FAHA#; R. James Valentine, MD**