Publications by authors named "Mohamad F Barakat"
Background: Life-threatening arrhythmias (LTAs) can trigger sudden cardiac death or provoke implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) discharges that escalate morbidity and mortality. Longitudinal myofibrils predominate in the subendocardium, which is uniquely sensitive to arrhythmogenic triggers. In this study, we test the hypothesis that mitral annular systolic velocity (S'), a simple routinely obtained tissue Doppler index of LV long-axis systolic function, might predict lethal arrhythmias irrespective of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Congestion is associated with worse outcomes in critically ill surgical patients but can be difficult to quantify noninvasively. We hypothesised that plasma volume status (PVS), estimated preoperatively using a validated formula that enumerates percentage change from ideal plasma volume (PV), would provide incremental prognostic utility after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, patients who underwent CABG surgery (1999-2010) were identified from a prospectively collected database.
Article Synopsis
- A 49-year-old man went to the emergency room because he was feeling weak and had a fever.
- Doctors found out he had a serious infection in his blood and problems with his spine that was pushing on his spinal cord.
- After surgery to fix his heart valve and 6 weeks of antibiotics, he got better and didn’t have any long-term health issues.
Background: A hernia repair open surgical simulation computer software was developed at Imperial College London. A randomized controlled educational trial was conducted to investigate the benefit of the simulation on the development of procedural knowledge.
Methods: Medical students in their clinical years were invited to participate in the trial.