Awareness of Cigarette-Smoker Surgery Patients in Abha City, Saudi Arabia Toward Surgery Related Adverse Effects of Smoking
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Awareness of Cigarette-Smoker Surgery Patients in Abha City, Saudi Arabia Toward Surgery Related Adverse Effects of Smoking, GAMAL A. EJAIMI, IBRAHIM H. ABU SAQ, WALEED H. ALFAIFI, FATIMAH A. AL-ZAHRANI, NAWA FAHAD S. AL-SHAHRANI, WALEED A.H. AL-QAHTANI, FAYEZ A. AL-SHAHRANI, ABDUL AZIZ A. MUTEQ, AHMED A. MAHFOUZ and OSSAMA A. MOSTAFA
Abstract
Objective: To assess the awareness of cigarette-smoker surgery patients toward surgery-related adverse effects of smoking.
Methods: This study included 295 smoker patients (286 males and 6 females). A self-administered questionnaire has been developed by the researchers which comprised a personal characteristics, smoking habits, smoking cessation and infor-mation about health professionals' advice regarding smoking during surgery and anesthesia for patients has an experience.
Results: The mean age of participants was 35.34±13.03 years. The smoking period ranged from 1-50 years. Those who smoked more than 10 cigarettes per day were 63%. Most participants were aware of health problems related to smoking (272, 92.2%). Only 150 patients gave a history of surgical operations. Out of them 81 persons (54%) stopped smoking before the operation. The main reason for stopping smoking was complying to doctor's advice (45, 30%). During anesthesia 25% developed complications of whom 11% had airway problems and 11% sustained decreased oxygen saturation, while 3% developed both. Postoperatively, 19% developed decreased oxygen saturation, 6% had airway problems, and 2% had both.
Conclusions: Surgery patients have high awareness about smoking-related complications that may occur during anesthe-sia and surgery. However, health professionals' advice and counseling about smoking cessation for elective surgeries were unsatisfactory. This necessitates conducing more efforts and programs to achieve a significant decrease in morbidity and mortality related to smoking. Health education programs can be of help to further raise public's awareness regarding surgery-related adverse effects of smoking.