Woman and Man
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Extract
- Assess the feasibility of conducting a multicentre prospective trial involving smoking cessation treatment, pre-planned and scheduled surgery and collection of data on surgical site infections and other post-operative complications. - Generate data on rates of surgical site infections and other post-operative complications in patients undergoing elective orthopaedic, plastic, general and vascular surgery. - Assess the practicality and utility of three separate instruments in recording data on surgical site infection and in assessing and grading surgical site infections and of a further instrument in grading other post-operative complications. - Assess the efficacy of Varenicline and smoking cessation advice to enable cessation of smoking for the 7 day period preceding hospital admission in patients undergoing elective surgery
Inclusion criteria
- Smoking cessation in patients scheduled for elective surgery