Article
The Impact of Smoking on the Frequency of Intraoperative and Postoperative Complications in Orthopaedic Surgical Patients
2025-10-30
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND The success of orthopaedic surgery is fundamentally biological, yet the synergistic effect of smoking and comorbidities on surgical outcomes is not well quantified. We hypothesised that active smoking multiplies the risk conferred by common comorbidities. METHODS In this retrospective cohort study, we analysed 3,123 orthopaedic procedures from 2020–2024. Patients were stratified by comorbidity (diabetes...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c01c8796-0249-59cb-b789-0ed4f0673a5d
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202509.1470.v2
