Patients who gave up smoking before surgery had half as many complications afterwards
Friday, March 13, 2009 - 11:22
in Health & Medicine
More than a third of patients who took part in an eight-week smoking cessation programme before and after planned surgery were able to give up and most of them were still smoke free after a year, according to research in the March issue of Anaesthesia...
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