What is your typical approach to the use of beta blockers in the setting of recent cocaine use amongst patients presenting with cocaine-related MI, arrhythmias, or new-onset heart failure?

Topics: Cardiology • Preventive Cardiology

If these patients were already prescribed non-selective beta blockers outpatient, do you recommend withholding these medications in the acute phase?

Answer from: at Academic Institution

I favor using or continuing non-selective beta-blockers in patients presenting with acute cardiac manifestations of recent cocaine use. My preferred agent in this setting is carvedilol.

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