Friday, May 15 2009 at 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Cardiovascular Poster Session
The presentation, entitled “Comparison Of Three Aspirin Formulations” will be given by Dr. Sean Nordt in the Cardiovascular forum at the 2009 SAEM Annual Meeting at the Sheraton New Orleans.
AEM Press Release :  Read more about it Right HERE after the May 15th midnight embargo . . .  

7:30 - 9:30 AM Breakfast and Networking
Napoleon B1-C1 / 3rd Floor

8 am - 12 noon CORD General Membership Meeting
Napoleon A 1-2-3 & Common Street Corridor / 3rd Floor

8 am - 4 pm Chief Resident Forum
Armstrong Ballroom / 8th Floor

1:00 PM to 4:00 PM AHRQ Session
Using HCUP Databases for Emergency Medicine Research:
Introduction to the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS).
Napoleon A 1-2-3 / 3rd Floor

3:00 to 4:30 Developing a research agenda on ED crowding and geriatric patient care 
Napoleon B 2-3 / 3rd Floor  Download the slides here >> pdf file  or  ppt file <<

5:00 PM - ED Crowding Task Force becomes Interest Group - meeting in Salon 820.

Photo Gallery - may decide on other module but give it a try and e-mail me your thoughts. vyates@saem.org  

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UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL May 15, 2009 (12:01 AM ET)

Contact:

Sean Wagner
Wiley-Blackwell
781-388-8550
swagner@wiley.com

Study Compares Formulations of Three Aspirin Types

For many years, it has been known that aspirin is beneficial to patients suffering heart attacks and near-heart attacks. But which of the many different types of aspirin is likely to help the most?

A group of researchers led by Dr. Sean Nordt from the University of California, San Diego gave three different types of aspirin to a group of volunteer research subjects: regular aspirin swallowed whole, regular aspirin chewed and swallowed, and chewable aspirin chewed and swallowed. Blood levels of aspirin were then measured, to see which route led to the highest aspirin levels in the body.

The chewable aspirin consistently showed greater and more rapid absorption than the regular aspirin, whether swallowed whole or chewed. This seemingly quite simple finding could lead to improvements in the care of heart attack patients.

The presentation, entitled “Comparison Of Three Aspirin Formulations” will be given by Dr. Sean Nordt in the Cardiovascular forum at the 2009 SAEM Annual Meeting at the Sheraton New Orleans on Friday, May 15 at 1:00 PM. Abstracts are published in Vol. 16, No. 4, Supplement 1, April 2009 of Academic Emergency Medicine, the official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

AEM is a peer-reviewed journal whose goal is to advance the science, education, and clinical practice of emergency medicine, to serve as a voice for the academic emergency medicine community, and to enhance the goals and objectives of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). Members and non-members worldwide depend on this journal for translational medicine relevant to emergency medicine, in addition to clinical news, case studies and more.

Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with many of the world’s leading societies. Wiley-Blackwell publishes over 1,400 peer-reviewed journals as well as 1,500+ new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols. For more information, please visit www.wiley-blackwell.com or http:// www.interscience.wiley.com.