Adverse Surgical Outcomes Linked to co-occurring Smoking and Risky Alcohol Use Among General Surgery Patients.
Anne C FernandezKipling M BohnertMark C BicketWenjing WengKushal SinghMichael EnglesbePublished in: Annals of surgery (2022)
The combination of smoking and risky drinking conferred the highest likelihood of complications, readmission, and reoperation before surgery. Co-occurring alcohol and smoking at the time of surgery warrants special attention as a patient risk factor and deserves additional research.
Keyphrases
- minimally invasive
- smoking cessation
- end stage renal disease
- coronary artery bypass
- risk factors
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- surgical site infection
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- working memory
- case report
- emergency department
- patient reported outcomes
- acute coronary syndrome
- coronary artery disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention