Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Suspending Aspirin a Week Before CABG May be Unneeded -

Suspending Aspirin a Week Before CABG May be Unneeded - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today: "Review
TEL AVIV, May 9-Halting low-dose aspirin a week before coronary-artery bypass surgery may be counterproductive, suggests a small Israeli study.

Patients who took low-dose aspirin until the day before surgery had shorter ICU stays and quicker recovery times, reported Rabin Gerrah, M.D., and colleagues in the May issue of Chest."

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