Electronic Cigarette and Surgery (ECigarSurg)

Completed

• Conditions: Smoke Inhalation

• Registration Number: NCT03594643
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Brief Summary

Since decades, literature has shown that smoking has negative effect on postoperative outcome. Recent systematic review and meta-analysis on clinical impact of smoking and smoking cessation showed that postoperative healing complications occur more often in smokers compared with nonsmokers.

The use of electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) is spreading through the world. Despite this fact, the health risk assessment studies on e-cigarette are limited and scientific evidences are inconsistent.

This prospective multicenter study aimed at assessing the use of e-cigarette whether patient undergoing elective surgery. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of e-cigarette consumer in perioperative period. Secondary objectives were to analyze when patients consume e-cigarette in regard of surgery, how many dose they consume and if they also consume nicotine cigarette.

Detailed Description

this study used a standardized questionnaire that was filled in preoperative period

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-06-01
• Study First Submitted: 2017-12-28
• Primary Completion: 2017-12-30
• Study Completion: 2017-12-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-07-19
• Study First Posted: 2018-07-20
• Status Verified: 2019-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-07-04
• Last Update Posted: 2019-07-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1700

Inclusion Criteria

• protocol approval
• patients scheduled for elective surgery

Exclusion Criteria

• < 18 ans
• refusal
• not speaking
• emergency surgery

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
electronic cigarette	1 day	incidence of electronic cigarette that are used by patients

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Cuvillon; 🇫🇷 Nîmes, Gard, France