smoking

Original Research

Smoking as a Risk Factor for Forehead Flap Wound Outcomes: An Analysis of 1030 Patients

11/11/2022

Salomon Puyana , MD, MS;

Abigail E. Chaffin , MD, FACS, CWSP, FAPWCA;

Carolina Puyana , MD, MSPH;

David A. Jansen , MD;

H. Harvak Hajebian , MD;

This retrospective cohort study used data collected from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program from 2005 to 2019 to examine smoking as a preoperative risk factor for complications following forehead...

This retrospective cohort study...

11/11/2022

ePlasty

Editorial Message

To Vape or Not to Vape? That Is the Question

05/01/2022

Terry Treadwell , MD, FACS, FAAWC;

Because we know the negative effects of smoking, as health care providers, we encourage our patients to cease smoking with varying degrees of success. As a result, many patients have changed to electronic cigarette vaping as a perceived safer...

Because we know the negative...

05/01/2022

Wounds

Empirical Research

Relationship Between Smoking and Pressure Injury Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

09/01/2021

Bing-Bing Wu ;

Jia-Ning Yu ;

Li-Ping Feng , MS;

Man-Li Zha , MS;

Dong-Zhou Gu ;

R. Xu ;

Hong-Lin Chen , PhD;

Wang-Qin Shen , PhD;

09/01/2021

Wound Management & Prevention

Original Research

The Effect of Smoking on Sternal Scar Healing: A Prospective Cohort Study

08/01/2019

J.F. Mermans ;

S.J. Schop ;

E. van den Kerckhove ;

A.E.K. Deliaert ;

J.G. Maessen ;

S.A. Xanthoulea ;

T.S. Dormaar ;

R.R.W.J. van der Hulst ;

E. M. Heerdt ;

Cardiothoracic surgery with a median sternotomy is an electing factor for the development of a hypertrophic scar. Hypertrophic scars, characterized by an increased vascularity, often result in aesthetic and functional problems. Smoking, due...

Cardiothoracic surgery with a...

08/01/2019

Wounds