{"id":19542,"date":"2020-01-24T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T10:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/actualites\/ne-pas-fumer-quatre-semaines-avant-la-chirurgie-reduit-les-risques\/"},"modified":"2020-01-24T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T10:17:29","slug":"ne-pas-fumer-quatre-semaines-avant-la-chirurgie-reduit-les-risques","status":"publish","type":"actualites","link":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/actualites\/ne-pas-fumer-quatre-semaines-avant-la-chirurgie-reduit-les-risques\/","title":{"rendered":"Not smoking four weeks before surgery reduces risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/20-01-2020-smoking-greatly-increases-risk-of-complications-after-surgery\">the World Health Organization<\/a> (WHO) published on January 20, 2020, shows that smokers who quit four weeks or more before surgery experience fewer post-surgical complications. This study was co-authored by the WHO, the Australian University of Newcastle, and the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The study found that smokers are at significantly higher risk than non-smokers of both anesthesia-related and post-surgical complications, such as cardiac and respiratory problems, and delayed and impaired wound healing with wound infections. This is due to the presence of numerous toxins, including carbon monoxide, in cigarette smoke, which impair tissue oxygenation and immune defenses. The study shows that the longer the pre-operative cessation, the greater the benefits, since each additional week without tobacco reduces the risk of 19%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Shams Syed, WHO Quality of Care Coordinator, said: \u201c<em>Complications after surgery are a significant burden for both the health care provider and the patient. Physicians, surgeons, nurses, and families are important in helping a patient quit smoking at every stage of care, especially before surgery.<\/em>. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a9Generation Without Tobacco<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e8e8e8;\"><a style=\"color: #e8e8e8;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnct.fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">| \u00a9National Committee Against Smoking |<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"date-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"grid-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WHO report shows that smokers who quit before surgery experience fewer post-surgical complications. <\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":14942,"template":"","tags":[],"thematique":[474],"class_list":["post-19542","actualites","type-actualites","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thematique-sante"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualites\/19542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualites"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actualites"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualites\/19542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19542"},{"taxonomy":"thematique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematique?post=19542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}