This week: Perioperative Aspirin and Blood Transfusions and Hospital-acquired Infections Nathan and Amol want you to: 1. Understand that the use of perioperative ASA did not reduce the rate of postoperative MI or death, but was found to increase the rate of major bleeding. 2. Recognize that it may be difficult to generalize the findings of the POISE-2 ...

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