Publications by authors named "Ahmed Alfarsi"
Introduction: The Caries Impacts and Experiences Questionnaire for Children (CARIES-QC) is a disease-specific questionnaire that assesses the impact of caries on the oral health-related quality of life of children. This study aimed to establish a baseline for caries-specific impact on schoolchildren in Saudi Arabia and to examine its association with dental care utilization.
Methods: This cross-sectional study used random stratified cluster sampling among 4th-6th graders in Jeddah.
Early Rehabilitation in Critically ill Children: A Two Center Implementation Study.
Pediatr Crit Care Med
February 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to implement an early rehabilitation bundle in two Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs), focusing on improving patient care through specific interventions.
- Key components of the intervention included prioritizing pain management, monitoring for delirium, and promoting early mobilization among children under 18 admitted to the PICU.
- While the implementation improved compliance and reduced certain sedative use without compromising patient safety or comfort, it did not have a significant impact on overall clinical outcomes like delirium rates or PICU length of stay.
Objectives: To develop and implement a tool to improve daily patient goal setting, team collaboration and communication.
Design: Quality improvement implementation project.
Setting: Tertiary-level PICU.
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in children admitted to pediatric intensive care units. It is known to be associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Here, we report prolonged, transient, increased renal magnesium (Mg) wasting after severe acute kidney injury presenting with a generalized tonic-clonic seizure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: We sought to determine the prevalence, pattern of causative organisms, and mortality of newborns with culture-proven late-onset sepsis (LOS) and to determine and compare the risk factors linked to late-onset gram-positive and late-onset gram-negative sepsis in Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH).
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional retrospective study of data obtained between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2014 (eight years) from infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at SQUH. Infants born in SQUH (inborn) and other institutions (outborn) with positive blood cultures were included in the study.