NCT03594643

Electronic Cigarette and Surgery (ECigarSurg)

Electronic Cigarette and Perianesthesia : a Prospective Multicentric Survey

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,700 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

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

Conditions

• Smoke Inhalation

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-30
• Completion: 2017-12-30
• First posted: 2018-07-20
• Last updated: 2019-07-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France