Publications by authors named "Sadeem K Alnami"

Context: Headaches can negatively impact children's quality of life. Nevertheless, data on the parental awareness of childhood headache is very limited.

Aim: The objective was to estimate the prevalence of childhood headaches and parental awareness of headaches among their elementary school children.

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Background: Surgical site infections [SSIs] are the second most common type of healthcare-associated infections and leading cause of postoperative morbidity and mortality in pediatric cardiac surgery. This study aims to determine the rate of, risk factors for, and most common pathogen associated with the development of SSIs after pediatric cardiac surgery.

Methods: Patients aged ≤14 years who underwent cardiac surgery at our tertiary care hospital between January 2010 and December 2015 were retrospectively reviewed.

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