Where There’s Smoke, There’s Hip and Knee Complications

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Hip and Knee Complications (written by Biloine Young @ OTW)
In one of the largest studies ever conducted to measure the effect of smoking on post operative orthopedic complications, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham assessed the effects of cigarette smoking on 33,336 patients, 30 days after elective total hip or total knee replacement surgery.
No surprise, smokers who have total knee or hip replacement surgeries are at a significant risk of 30-day postoperative complications and/or death at one year. But what really hit home were these stati...