Doctors told stop prescribing aspirin for common heart condition.. Do you agree? GPs are to be told to stop prescribing aspirin to people with a common heart condition because it is no longer considered effective in preventing strokes. The drug is used to thin the blood of hundreds of thousands of patients with an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, which increases the chance of stroke inducing blood clots forming. However in new guidelines set to be finalised this month, it will be recommended that aspirin be fazed out and replaced with other, more effective anticoagulant medication such as warfarin... Do not offer aspirin monotherapy solely for stroke prevention to people with atrial fibrillation, reads the draft document which was published earlier this year. Professor Mark Baker, Director of the Centre for Clinical Practice at NICE, which issues guidelines to doctors said: This updated draft guideline reflects important new evidence about the best ways to treat the condition, including the use of the new generation of oral anticoagulants and ablation strategies, as well as the use of risk calculators to guide treatment decisions. The British Heart Foundation told the BBC that most doctors had already began to move away from aspirin.. guidance.nice.org.uk/CG/Published
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:17:46 +0000
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