Background: Smoking is considered to be a risk factor for patients undergoing surgery and anesthesia, but it is unclear whether this is applicable to patients undergoing ambulatory surgery. The aim of this study was to determine the risk of respiratory complications and wound infection among smokers.
Methods: The authors studied a random selection of 489 adult patients undergoing ambulatory surgery. Smoking status was determined by self-report and confirmed with end-expired carbon monoxide analysis. The risk of respiratory complications (i.e., desaturation, cough, laryngospasm, bronchospasm, breath-holding, or apnea) and wound infection (i.e., wound redness or discharge +/- positive microbial culture, requiring antibiotic therapy) in smokers versus nonsmokers was ascertained. Odds ratios were estimated from multivariable logistic regression and adjusted for age, gender, body mass index, partner's smoking status, domiciliary smoking exposure, and extent and duration of surgery.
Results: Most smokers continued to smoke up until the day of surgery. Smokers had a higher rate of respiratory complications (32.8%vs. 25.9%; adjusted odds ratio, 1.71; 95% confidence interval, 1.03-2.84;P = 0.038) and wound infection (3.6%vs. 0.6%; odds ratio, 16.3; 95% confidence interval, 1.58-175;P = 0.019). Odds ratios comparing current plus ex-smokers with nonsmokers were of similar magnitude for most of these complications. 相似文献
It is well known that plasma lipoprotein, particularly oxidized LDL, plays an important rolein the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and atherosclerotic diseases. We used oxidized LDLgenerated by incubating LDL from healthy Persons with copper dichloride as a model to in-vestigate the antioxidate property of Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae Composita (RSMC). Onphotos, the spot X1 and the spot X2 were clearly found in the control group after the dislysisinto copper dichloride for 24 and 48 hours, but they could not found in the RSMC group.The analysis of the constituents of lipids in LDL (by charring method) showed that afterdislysis the percentages of the spot X1 and the spot X2 in the RSMC group weresignificantly lower tban those in the control group (P< 0.01). The results suggest thatRSMC plays a potential role in antioxidation of lipuls or LDL. 相似文献
