Does preoperative smoking increase the risk of postoperative complications?
Preoperative smoking is associated with a broad range of increased postoperative complications.
Preoperative smoking was found to be associated with an increased risk of the following postoperative complications: general morbidity, wound complications, general infections, pulmonary complications, neurological complications, and admission to the intensive care unit.
Grønkjær et al. (Tue,) studied this question.