Protocol for a feasibility study of smoking cessation in the surgical pathway before major lung surgery: Project MURRAY.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Smoking prior to major thoracic surgery is the biggest risk factor for development of postoperative pulmonary complications, with one in five patients continuing to smoke before surgery. Current guidance is that all patients should stop smoking before elective surgery yet very few are offered specialist smoking cessation support. Patients would prefer support within the thoracic surgical pathway. No study has addressed the effectiveness of such an intervention in this setting on cessation. The overall aim is to determine in patients who undergo major elective thoracic surgery whether an intervention integrated (INT) into the surgical pathway improves smoking cessation rates compared with usual care (UC) of standard community/hospital based NHS smoking support. This pil

SUBMITTER: Lugg ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7651715 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature