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Surgery and smoking
1School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284-7951, USA.
Seminars in Perioperative Nursing
|October 19, 1999
Abstract:
The patient who smokes presents a unique challenge to the operating room nurse. The various components of tobacco impact in a number of important ways on the cardiovascular and pulmonary system. Wound healing also is affected by smoking. It is vital that the nurse recognize the complications that may be caused by smoking.