Key result
Smoking cessation before surgery reduces the risk of perioperative complications and improves outcomes.
Why the study?
Does smoking cessation before surgery reduce perioperative complications in surgical patients who smoke?
Does smoking cessation before surgery reduce perioperative complications in surgical patients who smoke?
Smoking cessation prior to surgery is beneficial for reducing perioperative complications.
May support preoperative smoking cessation counseling; leaves open optimal timing from higher-level evidence.
(Abstracted from Anesth Analg, 122:1311–1320, 2016) Smokers comprise a notable proportion of surgical patients, and smoking is known to increase the risk of postoperative morbidity and mortality. Nonetheless, smoking cessation before surgery reduces the risk of perioperative complications and improves outcomes.
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Yousefzadeh et al. (2016) studied this question. Smoking cessation before surgery reduces the risk of perioperative complications and improves outcomes.
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