Posted on 10/14/2022 5:27:02 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Patients who have surgery to repair bone fractures typically receive a type of injectable blood thinner, low-molecular-weight heparin, to prevent life-threatening blood clots, but a new clinical trial found that over-the-counter aspirin is just as effective.
The multi-center randomized clinical trial of more than 12,000 patients at 21 trauma centers is the largest-ever trial in orthopedic trauma patients.
Said Robert V. O'Toole, MD: "Orthopedic trauma patients are commonly prescribed the blood thinner low-molecular-weight heparin to prevent blood clots for weeks following surgery. Not only does the medication need to be injected, it can also be quite expensive compared to aspirin."
Blood clots cause as many as 100,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. Patients who experience fractures that require surgery—an estimated 1 million people in the U.S. annually—are at increased risk of developing blood clots in the veins, including a fatal pulmonary embolism, which is a clot in the lung. Current guidelines recommend prescribing low-molecular-weight heparin (enoxaparin), although research in total joint replacement surgery suggested a potential benefit of aspirin as a less-expensive, widely available option.
The study enrolled 12,211 patients with leg or arm fractures that necessitated surgery or pelvic fractures regardless of the specific treatment. Half were randomly assigned to receive 30 mg of injectable low-molecular-weight heparin twice daily. The other half received 81 mg of aspirin twice daily. The follow-up period after surgery was 90 days.
The main finding of the study was that aspirin was "noninferior," or no worse, than low-molecular-weight heparin in preventing death from any cause—47 patients in the aspirin group died compared with 45 patients in the heparin group. Secondary outcomes noted no differences in non-fatal pulmonary embolism. The incidence of bleeding complications and all other safety outcomes was similar in both groups.
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I’m surprised two baby aspirins equal two injected doses of heparin.
I remember having to give myself lovenox shots.
Maybe, but not nearly as profitable.
So maybe that will help with after-jab treatment.
I’ve been taking low dose for at least 10 years and I ain’t dead yet. As far as I know.
Does it work for the Pfizer vaccine?
Some here would say your account is anecdotal. And/or that “you’re not a doctor”.
:) /doctor karens
What a minute! Recently the experts were telling us that aspirin was dangerous and not recommended at all. Remember those stories telling people not to take aspirin to prevent blood clots after vaccinations?
Efficacious, but inexpensive? That will never work for the folks at big Pharma...
If it works, it must be prohibitively expensive (/sarc).
In March of this year my wife had a hip replacement.
No heavy duty blood thinners.
Here is what she received and the doseage.
Aspirin EC 81 Mg Tablet
Instructions:
Take 1 tablet by mouth 2 times a day. After 30 days, resume prior regimen.
After 30 days, she is back on her once a day, 1 Aspirin tab regimen.
At a psychiatric lecture I attended, the panel presented that the same neuropathways for physical pain were also for emotional pain.
Sad, take a Tylenol.
Interesting.
“When people feel emotional pain, the same areas of the brain get activated as when people feel physical pain: the anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex.
In one study, these regions were activated when people experienced an experimental social rejection from peers.
In another more real-life study, the same regions were activated when people who had recently broken up with romantic partners viewed pictures of the former partner.”
The problem with the cynic’s views of “Big Pharma” and “doctors” are that Heparin is never used for long, nor is Lovenox.
Aspirin, esp. the baby kind, has been recommended for decades now as anti-coag for any of us at risk on a daily basis.
The jab clots have NO iron and are NOT blood clots, they are foreign material clogging blood vessels.
A few embalmers have said a fairly large % of vaxxxxxxxed deaths have significant blood blockage...
Dear God in Heaven
Great so somebody has to invent a fibroid dissolver.
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