PURLs: "Cold turkey" works best for smoking cessation.

Counsel patients who want to quit smoking that doing so abruptly leads to higher cessation rates than does quitting gradually.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Preoperative Screening and Postoperative Care.

The incidence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has reached epidemic proportions, and it is an often unrecognized cause of perioperative morbidity and mortality. Profound hypoxic injury from apnea during the postoperative period is often misdiagnosed as cardiac arrest due to other causes. Almost a quarter of patients entering a hospital for elective surgery have OSA, and >80% of these cases are undiagnosed at the time of surgery.