Publications by authors named "Shamlan Alqinai"
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- The study investigates the risk factors for barotrauma in COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation in an ICU setting, highlighting its impact on patient management.
- Out of 343 patients, 54 (15.4%) experienced barotrauma, primarily presenting as pneumothorax and highly correlated with patients having acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
- Key risk factors identified include low consciousness at intubation, high COVID-GRAM scores, and elevated positive-end expiratory pressure (PEEP), indicating a significant association with increased mortality in this patient group.
Introduction: COVID-19 has presented the surgical community with a multitude of challenges. Patients requiring surgical intervention who are positive for COVID-19 are not only more likely to develop complications post-operatively, but also pose an increased infection risk to the surgical team involved in their care. The infection control concerns raised at the peak of the pandemic persist in the post-pandemic era as patients continue to test positive for COVID-19 and the risk of a 'second wave' looms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Covid-19 has the propensity to result in a wide array of manifestations. Recently, thromboembolic complications of Covid-19 have been denoted in literature. We report 5 cases of Covid-19 positive patients with no significant comorbidities who developed 1 time episodes of either; acute limb ischemia or bowel ischemia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHelicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a very common bacterium present in the gastric tissue of up to 50 % of people, and the mucosal damage it causes can predispose to multiple comorbid conditions. This study aims to observe the prevalence of H.
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