Table 3.

Drug doses

References	Groups	Landiolol dose	Control drug dose
Sezai et al. [18]	2	2 µg/kg/min ci	Saline
Sezai et al. [19]	3	5 µg/kg/min ci initially	Saline
		5 µg/kg/min ci and oral or nasogastric administration of bisoprolol (2.5 mg/day) from the day after surgery
Fujii et al. [20]	2	6.3 µg/kg/min ci (mean value) followed by oral carvedilol (2.5–5 mg/day)	Oral carvedilol (2.5–5 mg/day) after extubation and resumption of oral intake
Ogawa et al. [21]	2	3–5 µg/kg/min ci	No drug given
Nagaoka et al. [22]	2	0.5–1 µg/kg/min ci	Diltiazem, 0.5–1 µg/kg/min ci
Sakaguchi et al. [23]	2	10 µg/kg/min ci initially, titrated according to heart rate and blood pressure (2.5–10 µg/kg/min)	No drug given

ci continuous infusion