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Haytham Kaafarani, MD, MPH

Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Verified email at mgh.harvard.edu
Cited by 14923

[HTML][HTML] Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study

D Nepogodiev, A Bhangu, JC Glasbey, E Li, OM Omar… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background The impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
on postoperative recovery needs to be understood to inform clinical decision making during …

[HTML][HTML] Beirut ammonium nitrate blast: analysis, review, and recommendations

S Al-Hajj, HR Dhaini, S Mondello, H Kaafarani… - Frontiers in public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A massive chemical detonation occurred on August 4, 2020 in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon.
An uncontrolled fire in an adjacent warehouse ignited~ 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate …

Description and impact of a comprehensive multispecialty multidisciplinary intervention to decrease opioid prescribing in surgery

HMA Kaafarani, AI Eid, DM Antonelli, DC Chang… - Annals of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Methods: A multispecialty multidisciplinary initiative was designed to change the culture of
postoperative opioid prescribing, including: consensus-built opioid guidelines for 42 …

[HTML][HTML] Opioid misuse: a review of the main issues, challenges, and strategies

H Biancuzzi, F Dal Mas, V Brescia… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the United States, from 1999 to 2019, opioid overdose, either regularly prescribed or
illegally acquired, was the cause of death for nearly 500,000 people. In addition to this …

Timing of surgery following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: an international prospective cohort study

COVIDSurg Collaborative… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Peri‐operative SARS‐CoV‐2 infection increases postoperative mortality. The aim
of this study was to determine the optimal duration of planned delay before surgery in …

[HTML][HTML] Elective cancer surgery in COVID-19–free surgical pathways during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: an international, multicenter, comparative cohort study

JC Glasbey, D Nepogodiev, JFF Simoes… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
RESULTS Of 9,171 patients from 447 hospitals in 55 countries, 2,481 were operated on in
COVID-19–free surgical pathways. Patients who underwent surgery within COVID-19–free …

Gastrointestinal complications in critically ill patients with COVID-19

HMA Kaafarani, M El Moheb, JO Hwabejire… - Annals of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Extrapulmonary disease has been observed in patients with coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19). 1–3 We describe here the gastrointestinal (GI) complications of patients with …

Surgical risk is not linear: derivation and validation of a novel, user-friendly, and machine-learning-based predictive optimal trees in emergency surgery risk (POTTER) …

D Bertsimas, J Dunn, GC Velmahos… - Annals of …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Methods: All ES patients in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality
Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) 2007 to 2013 database were included (derivation …

Opioids after surgery in the United States versus the rest of the world: the International Patterns of Opioid Prescribing (iPOP) multicenter study

HMA Kaafarani, K Han, M El Moheb… - Annals of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The International Patterns of Opioid Prescribing study compares postoperative
opioid prescribing patterns in the United States (US) versus the rest of the world. Summary …

Adequate nutrition may get you home: effect of caloric/protein deficits on the discharge destination of critically ill surgical patients

DD Yeh, E Fuentes, SA Quraishi… - Journal of Parenteral …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Macronutrient deficit in the surgical intensive care unit (ICU) is associated with
worse in‐hospital outcomes. We hypothesized that increased caloric and protein deficit is …