A study of the impact of long-term tobacco smoking on postoperative intensive care admission

Anaesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-59

  Moller A M ^a   Pedersen, T ^a   Villebro, N ^a   Schnaberich, A ^a   Haas, M ^a   Tonnesen R ^a  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Smoking: anaesthesia, postoperative complications, intensive care admission

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 0037240026     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.02788_2.x     Document Type: Article

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