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Since decades, literature has shown that smoking has negative effect on postoperative outcome. Recent systematic review and meta-analysis on clinical impact of smoking and smoking cessation showed that postoperative healing complications occur more often in smokers compared with nonsmokers.

The use of electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) is spreading through the world. Despite this fact, the health risk assessment studies on e-cigarette are limited and scientific evidences are inconsistent.

This prospective multicenter study aimed at assessing the use of e-cigarette whether patient undergoing elective surgery. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of e-cigarette consumer in perioperative period. Secondary objectives were to analyze when patients consume e-cigarette in regard of surgery, how many dose they consume and if they also consume nicotine cigarette.


Clinical Trial Description

this study used a standardized questionnaire that was filled in preoperative period ;


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NCT number NCT03594643
Study type Observational
Source Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nimes
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Status Completed
Phase
Start date June 1, 2016
Completion date December 30, 2017

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