After Hip or Knee Replacement, Plain Aspirin Alone Works…

After Hip or Knee Replacement, Plain Aspirin Alone Works Just as Well as a Stronger Blood Thinner Preventing blood clots after hip or knee replacement surgery is a critical part of recovery, but the best approach has remained genuinely uncertain. A large Canadian trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine now offers meaningful clarity, and the answer may simplify treatment for millions of patients. After joint replacement surgery, patients need blood thinning medication to prevent dangerous clots, deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. Rivaroxaban followed by aspirin has already been shown to work well for this. But whether aspirin alone, without the stronger blood thinner first, could work just as effectively had remained unclear. Researchers enrolled 5,429 patients undergoing total hip or total knee replacement surg