<prompt> An elective surgery is to be done in a patient taking heavy doses of Aspirin. Management consists of :Proceed with surgeryStopping aspirin for 7 days and then do surgeryPreoperative platelet transfusionIntra operative platelet transfusion  <response>: Ans. is b i.e., Stop aspirin for 7 days and then do surgery Aspirin should be stopped 1 week before elective surgery. - KDT Aspirin, even in small doses, irreversibly inhibits Thrombooxane A2 TXA2 synthesis by platelets. Thus it interferes with platelet aggregation and increase the bleeding time. This effect lasts for a week, the turnover time of platelets. 