A patient is taking aspirin to help prevent myocardial infarction and is experiencing moderate gastrointestinal upset.The nurse will contact the patient's provider to discuss changing from aspirin to which drug?

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Aspirin is used to inhibit platelet aggregation to prevent cardiovascular accident and myocardial infarction.Patients taking aspirin for this purpose would not benefit from COX-2 inhibitors,since the COX-1 enzyme is responsible for inhibiting platelet aggregation.The patient should take enteric-coated aspirin to lessen the gastrointestinal distress.Celecoxib and nabumetone are both COX-2 inhibitors.

A Patient Is Taking Aspirin to Help Prevent Myocardial Infarction