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A New Index for Pre-Operative Cardiovascular Evaluation

Dakik, Habib Abbas; Chehab, Omar M.; Eldirani, Mahmoud; Sbeity, Eman; Karam, Cynthia J.; Abou-Hassan, Ossama K.; Msheik, Mayyas M.; Hassan, Hussein; Msheik, Ahmad; Kaspar, Chris; Makki, Maha H.; Tamim, Hani Mohammed (Elsevier USA, 2019)

Background: Currently used indices for pre-operative cardiovascular evaluation are either powerful, but complex, or simple, but with weak discriminatory power. Objectives: This study sought to prospectively derive and ...
A randomized controlled trial of variable rate phenylephrine infusion with rescue phenylephrine boluses versus rescue boluses alone on physician interventions during spinal anesthesia for elective cesarean delivery

Siddik-Sayyid, Sahar M.; Taha, Samar K.; Kanazi, Ghassan E.; Aouad, Marie T. (2014)

"BACKGROUND:: Phenylephrine infusion is used to reduce hypotension during spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery. A prophylactic fixed rate infusion regimen may not improve hemodynamic control; a variable rate regimen ...
A sequential allocation study to determine the ED50 of Dexmedetomidine as an adjuvant to lidocaine intravenous regional anesthesia

Karam, Cynthia J.; Al Assadi, Sadek; Kanazi, Ghassan E.; Zeeni, Carine A. (BioMed Central Ltd, 2022)

Background: Intravenous regional anesthesia is an easy and reliable anesthetic technique, but its use is limited by tourniquet pain. Clonidine is effective in overcoming this shortcoming when used with intravenous regional ...
A taxonomy for mechanical ventilation: 10 fundamental maxims

Chatburn, Robert L.; El-Khatib, Mohamad Farouk; Mireles-Cabodevila, Eduardo (American Association for Respiratory Care, 2014)

The American Association for Respiratory Care has declared a benchmark for competency in mechanical ventilation that includes the ability to “apply to practice all ventilation modes currently available on all invasive and ...
Accidental dural puncture, postdural puncture headache, intrathecal catheters, and epidural blood patch: Revisiting the old nemesis

Kaddoum, Roland N.; Motlani, Faisal; Kaddoum, Romeo N.; Srirajakalidindi, Arvind; Gupta, Deepak; Soskin, Vitaly (Springer-Verlag Tokyo, 2014)

One of the controversial management options for accidental dural puncture in pregnant patients is the conversion of labor epidural analgesia to continuous spinal analgesia by threading the epidural catheter intrathecally. ...
Adverse event rates associated with transforaminal and interlaminar epidural steroid injections: A Multi-institutional study

El-Yahchouchi, Christine A.; Plastaras, Christopher T.; Maus, Timothy P.; Carr, Carrie M.; McCormick, Zachary L.; Geske, Jennifer R.; Smuck, Matthew W.; Pingree, Matthew J.; Kennedy, David J. (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Background. Transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TFESI) have demonstrated efficacy and effectiveness in treatment of radicular pain. Despite little evidence of efficacy/effectiveness, interlaminar epidural steroid ...
Airway Abnormalities in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease: Incidence and Associated Factors

Foz, Carine; Peyton, James M.; Staffa, Steven J.; Kovatsis, Pete G.; Park, Raymond Seungjoon; DiNardo, James A.; Nasr, Viviane G. (W.B. Saunders, 2021)

Objectives: Airway abnormalities complicate the perioperative course of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), leading to significant morbidity and mortality. The literature describing airway abnormalities in those ...
Airway management in the operating room during the COVID-19 pandemic: The aubmc experience

Maroun, Wissam; El-Yahchouchi, Christine A.; Aouad, Marie T.; Foz, Carine (American University of Beirut, 2020)

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome‐CoronaVirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), the virus responsible for the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is highly contagious. Anesthesiologists, critical care physicians and inhalation therapists, ...
An ergonomic assessment of using laterally-tilting operating room tables and friction reducing devices for patient lateral transfers

Al-Qaisi, Saif K.; El Tannir, Adnan; Younan, Lina Sabbagh; Kaddoum, Roland N. (Elsevier Ltd, 2020)

Patient lateral transfers between two adjacent surfaces pose high musculoskeletal disorder risks for nurses and patient handlers. The purpose of this research was to examine the ergonomic benefits of utilizing the ...
Anesthesia in the operating room during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tarraf, Said; Zeeni, Carine A. (American University of Beirut, 2020)

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was first isolated in Wuhan, China in December 2019, after clusters pneumonia of unknown etiology surfaced. The infectious disease caused by this virus, known as COVID-19, overwhelmed ...
Assessing the impact of professional lactation support frequency, duration and delivery form on exclusive breastfeeding in Lebanese mothers

Daou, Dayane; Tamim, Hani Mohammed; Nabulsi, Mona M. (Public Library of Science, 2020)

Background The optimal frequency, duration, and form of professional lactation support needed to continue exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for six months have not yet been specifically identified. This study investigates the ...
Atelectasis in bariatric surgery: Review analysis and key practical recommendations

Serin, Sibel Ocak; Işıklar, Aysun Dauti; Karaören, Gülşah Ahyilmaz; El-Khatib, Mohamad Farouk; Caldeira, Vânia; Esquìnas, Antonio Matías (AVES, 2019)

Obesity is a condition that affects multiple organ systems, particularly the cardiovascular and respiratory system. In recent years, bariatric surgery has been reported to be the gold standard in the treatment of morbid ...
Automated versus conventional perioperative glycemic control in adult diabetic patients undergoing open heart surgery

Kaddoum, Roland N.; Khalili, Amro F.; Shebbo, Fadia; Ghanem, Nathalie; Daher, Layal Abou; Ali, Arwa Bou; Chehade, Nour El Hage; Maroun, Patrick; Aouad, Marie T. (BioMed Central Ltd, 2022)

Background: Intraoperative glycemic variability is associated with increased risks of mortality and morbidity and an increased incidence of hyperglycemia after cardiac surgery. Accordingly, clinicians tend to use a tight ...
Beirut

Zeeni, Carine A. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2021)
Bilateral biochemically silent pheochromocytoma, not silent after all

El-Doueihi, Robert Zakhia; Salti, Ibrahim S.; Aouad, Marie T.; El Hajj, Albert Elias (Elsevier Inc, 2019)

Pheochromocytoma is a sympathetic paraganglioma originating from the chromaffin cells. They are bilateral in 10% of cases and occur as a part of a MEN 2A or 2B syndromes. This is a case of bilateral asymptomatic pheochromocytomas ...
Comparison of the oxygenation factor and the oxygenation ratio in subjects with ards

El-Khatib, Mohamad Farouk; Bou-Akl, Imad J.; Ayoub, Chakib Maurice; Chatburn, Robert L.; Farhat, Hatem; Msheik, Mayyas M.; Fakih, Mohamad H.; Hallal, Ali H. (American Association for Respiratory Care, 2020)

BACKGROUND: The oxygenation ratio (ie, PaO2 /FIO2) remains the most commonly used index for assessing oxygenation and disease severity in patients with acute ARDS. However, the oxygenation ratio does not account for ...
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in nonapneic asthma: A clinical review of current evidence

Karim, Habib M.R.; Esquìnas, Antonio Matías; Ziatabar, Sally; Insalaco, Giuseppe; Skoczynski, Szymon; Sarc, Irena; Ferini‑Strambi, Luigi F.; Özyiğit, Leyla Pur; Hernandez-Gilsoul, Thierry; Singha, Subrata Kumar; Ciobanu, Laura D.; Sandoval-Gutiérrez, José Luis; Szkulmowski, Zbigniew; Piervincenzi, Edoardo; Aguiar, Margarida Abreu; El-Khatib, Mohamad Farouk; Corcione, Nadia; Gürün Kaya, Aslıhan; Çiledaǧ, Aydın; Kaya, Akín Gürün; Valli, Gabriele; Pierucci, Paola; Resta, Onofrio; Steiropoulos, Paschalis; de Marco, Francesca; Caldeira, Vânia; Mina, Bushra A. (AVES, 2020)

The use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in asthma has been a point of debate over the past several years. Various studies, including those on animals and humans have attempted to understand the role and ...
Covid-19 and non-operating room anesthesia – a summary of practices at the american university of beirut medical center, lebanon

Sleiman, Vanessa Bou; Siddik-Sayyid, Sahar M. (American University of Beirut, 2020)

Non-operating room anesthesia is a practice that is gaining popularity and expanding rapidly within the broader field of ambulatory care anesthesia, owing in particular to advancement in procedures and an increasing number ...
Development and validation of a generalizable model for predicting major transfusion during spine fusion surgery

Carabini, Louanne M.; Zeeni, Carine A.; Moreland, Natalie C.; Gould, Robert W.; Avram, Michael J.; Hemmer, Laura B.; Bebawy, John F.; Sugrue, Patrick A.; Koski, Tyler R.; Koht, Antoun H.; Gupta, Dhanesh K. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2014)

"BACKGROUND:: Surgery for posterior spine instrumentation often requires major transfusion. The aim of this study was to develop and test the validity of a model for predicting intraoperative major transfusion (>4 U total ...
Dexmedetomidine for Improved Quality of Emergence From General Anesthesia: A Dose-Finding Study

Aouad, Marie T.; Zeeni, Carine A.; Al Nawwar, Rony; Siddik-Sayyid, Sahar M.; Barakat, Hanane B.; Elias, Sandra; Yazbeck-Karam, V. G. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2019)

BACKGROUND: Dexmedetomidine provides smooth and hemodynamically stable emergence at the expense of hypotension, delayed recovery, and sedation. We investigated the optimal dose of dexmedetomidine for prevention of cough, ...

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