The Relationship Between Preoperative Smoking Status and Postoperative SSI: A Secondary Analysis of the ACS 2019 NSQIP
Carol Devlin, PhD, RN, RNFA, CNOR
Objectives:
1. Describe the relationship between smoking status and surgical site infections (SSI)
2. Describe the impact of smoking status on patients’ outcomes
3. List the perioperative interventions to improve smoking cessation rates of surgical patients
4. Describe an institutional policy to promote smoking cessation among surgical patients