Perioperative medicine & outcomes
The association of vaping and electronic cigarette use with postoperative hypoxemia and respiratory complications: a retrospective cohort analysis
Authors' conclusion
Vaping/e-cigarette use was neither associated with clinically significant hypoxemia during the first hour in the postanesthesia care unit nor with an increase in pulmonary complications.
Study context
- Population
- Adults undergoing noncardiothoracic surgeries
- Participants
- 110,940 adults
- Exposure
- Vapers/e-cigarette users vs nonvapers
- Vapers/e-cigarette usersn = 1,941
- Outcome
- Time-weighted average (TWA) SpO2/FIO2 ratio in the PACU
- Follow-up
- First postoperative hour
Methodological detailsentropy balancing
- Entropy balancing
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
TWA SpO2/FIO2 ratio in PACU
- Equivalent to a 4% change in SpO2 at a 30% FIO2 (or at a fixed FIO2)
- Entropy balancing
- Statistically significant
Observational data: associations, not effects.
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Original publication
The association of vaping and electronic cigarette use with postoperative hypoxemia and respiratory complications: a retrospective cohort analysis. Can J Anaesth. Published 7 August 2024. doi:10.
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