Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Nov 2009
Substance use among Iranian cardiac surgery patients and its effects on short-term outcome.
We assessed the prevalence of substance use among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft and valve surgery in northwest Iran. We evaluated the postoperative complications and in-hospital mortality of patients with substance dependence and abuse. ⋯ In cardiac surgery patients in northwest Iran, the prevalence of cigarette smoking is relatively low (very low in women), as is alcohol use, compared with Western countries; however, opium use is twice as prevalent. We found higher pulmonary complication rates in men who smoked, but no increase in postoperative cardiopulmonary complications and in-hospital mortality rates in patients who abused opium and consumed alcohol.