Doctors recommend daily aspirin for helping to reduce/prevent the severity of heart attacks. I would like to know what this does to your chances of surviving surgery if you are injured in an emergency (gunshot, vehicle accident, etc.) I googled on the web, but got a lot of technical info which is hard to understand. Does anyone have the condensed version? How serious is the effect on the surgery? For elective surgery, doctors want you to stop aspirin as much as five days before.