Perioperative Bleeding and Aspirin Use in Spine Surgery

Summary

The investigators would like to further the current understanding of aspirin and its effects on perioperative bleeding by conducting a randomized controlled trial of spinal surgery patients receiving varying doses of aspirin or no aspirin perioperatively. The investigators hypothesize that there will be no significant difference in perioperative blood loss between the different groups.

Timeline

Start

2016-07

Primary completion

2019-07

Completion

2019-12

Publications

• Background Hall R, Mazer CD. Antiplatelet drugs: a review of their pharmacology and management in the perioperative period. Anesth Analg. 2011 Feb;112(2):292-318. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e318203f38d. Epub 2011 Jan 6.
• Background Cuellar JM, Petrizzo A, Vaswani R, Goldstein JA, Bendo JA. Does aspirin administration increase perioperative morbidity in patients with cardiac stents undergoing spinal surgery? Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2015 May 1;40(9):629-35. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000000695.
• Background Gerstein NS, Schulman PM, Gerstein WH, Petersen TR, Tawil I. Should more patients continue aspirin therapy perioperatively?: clinical impact of aspirin withdrawal syndrome. Ann Surg. 2012 May;255(5):811-9. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318250504e.
• Background Soleman J, Baumgarten P, Perrig WN, Fandino J, Fathi AR. Non-instrumented extradural lumbar spine surgery under low-dose acetylsalicylic acid: a comparative risk analysis study. Eur Spine J. 2016 Mar;25(3):732-9. doi: 10.1007/s00586-015-3864-7. Epub 2015 Mar 11.
• Background Gerstein NS, Carey MC, Cigarroa JE, Schulman PM. Perioperative aspirin management after POISE-2: some answers, but questions remain. Anesth Analg. 2015 Mar;120(3):570-575. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000589.
• Background Manchikanti L, Abdi S, Atluri S, Benyamin RM, Boswell MV, Buenaventura RM, Bryce DA, Burks PA, Caraway DL, Calodney AK, Cash KA, Christo PJ, Cohen SP, Colson J, Conn A, Cordner H, Coubarous S, Datta S, Deer TR, Diwan S, Falco FJ, Fellows B, Geffert S, Grider JS, Gupta S, Hameed H, Hameed M, Hansen H, Helm S 2nd, Janata JW, Justiz R, Kaye AD, Lee M, Manchikanti KN, McManus CD, Onyewu O, Parr AT, Patel VB, Racz GB, Sehgal N, Sharma ML, Simopoulos TT, Singh V, Smith HS, Snook LT, Swicegood JR, Vallejo R, Ward SP, Wargo BW, Zhu J, Hirsch JA. An update of comprehensive evidence-based guidelines for interventional techniques in chronic spinal pain. Part II: guidance and recommendations. Pain Physician. 2013 Apr;16(2 Suppl):S49-283.
• Background Park HJ, Kwon KY, Woo JH. Comparison of blood loss according to use of aspirin in lumbar fusion patients. Eur Spine J. 2014 Aug;23(8):1777-82. doi: 10.1007/s00586-014-3294-y. Epub 2014 Apr 17.
• Background Kang SB, Cho KJ, Moon KH, Jung JH, Jung SJ. Does low-dose aspirin increase blood loss after spinal fusion surgery? Spine J. 2011 Apr;11(4):303-7. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2011.02.006.
• Background Wong SS, Irwin MG. Peri-operative cardiac protection for non-cardiac surgery. Anaesthesia. 2016 Jan;71 Suppl 1:29-39. doi: 10.1111/anae.13305.

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