E-cigarettes and their impact on patients undergoing anesthesia | AANA 2020

The electronic cigarette market is a $14 billion industry worldwide. As of August 2019, 215 cases of severe pulmonary illness related to e-cigarette use are being investigated in the United States. The known hazards of e-cigarette use are rapidly coming to light with the sudden onset of serious bronchiolitis-related pulmonary disease in otherwise healthy people who were known to use e-cigarettes. Learn also how COVID 19 has increased these dangers. Presented by Desiree Chappell with Monty Mythen and Bernard Gilligan, III, DNP, CRNA, APRN, Program Assistant Director, Assistant Professor, Cedar Crest College Nurse Anesthesia Program, Allentown, PA.