Chapter 8 Smoking cessation and surgery
Anthony Gibson
- • Smokers attend for similar surgery 5 to 10 yrs younger than non-smokers.
- • Smokers spend more days in hospital and have a higher post-operative mortality than non-smokers.
- • Stopping smoking before surgery can reduce anaesthetic risk and post-operative complications, for example reduce wound infections up to sixfold.
- • Very few referrals to a specialist stop-smoking service come from surgical specialties.
- • Quitting needs to be achieved at least 8 weeks before surgery for maximum benefit.
- • Large, randomized, controlled trials addressing clinical outcomes are needed to design the best stop-smoking service for surgical patients.
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199556250.003.0008
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Epidemiology, the world tobacco epidemic
- Chapter 2 The physiological and psychological effects of smoking
- Chapter 3 Helping individual smokers to stop
- Chapter 4 Pharmacological aids to smoking cessation
- Chapter 5 Non-pharmacological aids to smoking cessation
- Chapter 6 Smoking cessation and lung disease and COPD
- Chapter 7 Smoking cessation and heart disease
- Chapter 8 Smoking cessation and surgery
- Chapter 9 Smoking cessation and pregnancy
- Chapter 10 Smoking cessation in young people
- Chapter 11 Smoking cessation in girls/women
- Chapter 12 Smoking cessation and cancer
- Chapter 13 Smoking cessation and mental illness
- Chapter 14 Smoking cessation and other medical illness
- Chapter 15 New treatments and the future
This online reference is a compact, evidence-based, readable title that offers a useful update on smoking cessation.
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