P J Devereaux, Marko Mrkobrada, Daniel I Sessler, Kate Leslie, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Andrea Kurz, Juan Carlos Villar, Alben Sigamani, Bruce M Biccard, Christian S Meyhoff, Joel L Parlow, Gordon Guyatt, Andrea Robinson, Amit X Garg, Reitze N Rodseth, Fernando Botto, Giovanna Lurati Buse, Denis Xavier, Matthew T V Chan, Maria Tiboni, Deborah Cook, Priya A Kumar, Patrice Forget, German Malaga, Edith Fleischmann, Mohammed Amir, John Eikelboom, Richard Mizera, David Torres, C Y Wang, Tomas VanHelder, Pilar Paniagua, Otavio Berwanger, Sadeesh Srinathan, Michelle Graham, Laura Pasin, Yannick Le Manach, Peggy Gao, Janice Pogue, Richard Whitlock, André Lamy, Clive Kearon, Colin Baigent, Clara Chow, Shirley Pettit, Susan Chrolavicius, Salim Yusuf
BACKGROUND: There is substantial variability in the perioperative administration of aspirin in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, both among patients who are already on an aspirin regimen and among those who are not. METHODS: Using a 2-by-2 factorial trial design, we randomly assigned 10,010 patients who were preparing to undergo noncardiac surgery and were at risk for vascular complications to receive aspirin or placebo and clonidine or placebo. The results of the aspirin trial are reported here...
April 17, 2014: New England Journal of Medicine