Islam Omar

ORCID: 0000-0003-1112-6816
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Research Areas
  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
  • Hernia repair and management
  • Body Contouring and Surgery
  • Clinical practice guidelines implementation
  • Patient Safety and Medication Errors
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
  • Delphi Technique in Research
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Acute Kidney Injury Research
  • Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Intestinal and Peritoneal Adhesions
  • Hip and Femur Fractures
  • Bone fractures and treatments
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Surgical Simulation and Training
  • Diverticular Disease and Complications
  • Tracheal and airway disorders
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
  • Congenital limb and hand anomalies

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
2025

Northern Health and Social Care Trust
2022-2024

Antrim Area Hospital
2024

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
2021-2024

Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2023-2024

New Mexico State University
2024

Charing Cross Hospital
2024

National Health Service
2024

University of Ulster
2023-2024

Altnagelvin Area Hospital
2023-2024

Abstract Aim To assess our adherence to The Association of ColoProctology Great Britain and Ireland “ACPGBI” guidelines regarding follow up Acute Diverticulitis “AD” (managed conservatively successfully) across Trust. Methods ACPGBI presented in the Trust Audit Meeting. Data collected retrospectively over 18 months from admissions with AD "hospital 1 Health Board" showed that were not followed appropriately. Following this data 2 sites (hospital 1, hospital 2) again Results 1st cycle 1):...

10.1093/bjs/znae318.027 article EN British journal of surgery 2025-01-01

Metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) in patients with low body mass index is a topic of debate. This study aimed to address all aspects controversies these by using worldwide survey.An online 35-item questionnaire survey based on existing surrounding MBS class 1 obesity was created 17 surgeons from 10 different countries. Responses were collected analysed authors.A total 543 65 countries participated this survey. 52.29% participants agreed the statement that should be offered class-1 obese...

10.1186/s12893-023-02175-4 article EN cc-by BMC Surgery 2023-09-09

Much research has been conducted to apply data augmentation techniques (DA), i.e., transformations a given training set produce more synthetically. While DA is often used in computer vision and speech recognition, it not very common Natural Language Processing, especially the Named Entity Recognition (NER) task, identifying named entities. To best of our knowledge, also applied NER on challenging Code-Switching (CS) data, which text containing than one language same sentence. This paper...

10.1016/j.procs.2021.05.092 article EN Procedia Computer Science 2021-01-01

Hypernatremia is a commonly associated electrolyte disturbance in sepsis and septic shock patients the ICU. The objective of this study was to identify prognostic value hypernatremia shock.A prospective conducted on diagnosed prior admission ICU King Hamad University Hospital, Bahrain from January 1st 2017 February 28th 2019. Data including age, sex, comorbidities, source sepsis, sodium levels days one, three, seven. correlated with outcome (survival/death length stay).Patients included were...

10.2478/jccm-2020-0001 article EN cc-by ˜The œJournal of Critical Care Medicine 2020-01-01

Incisional hernia (IH) is a frequent complication following abdominal surgery. The development of IH could be more sophisticated than simple anatomical failure the wall. Reported incidence varies among studies. This review presented an overview definitions, molecular basis, risk factors, incidence, clinical presentation, surgical techniques, postoperative care, cost, prediction tools, and proposed preventative measures. A literature search PubMed was conducted to include high-quality studies...

10.7759/cureus.50568 article EN Cureus 2023-12-15

Introduction Ankle fractures are common injuries in orthopaedic practice. Open reduction with internal fixation is the main line of management displaced ankle fit patients. The study aims to analyse complications, re-operation rate and cost difference between one-third tubular locking plates which most frequently used constructs lateral malleolus fractures. Materials methods total number presented from April August during years 2015, 2017 2019 our Tertiary Hospital United Kingdom were...

10.7759/cureus.36181 article EN Cureus 2023-03-15

Introduction Incisional hernia (IH) is a common complication after open and minimal access abdominal surgery. The current practice guidelines recommend weight reduction to achieve body mass index (BMI) < 35 kg/m2 before surgical repair of ventral hernias. However, this could be challenging achieve, especially in emergency presentations. This study aims assess the safety IH patients with BMI ≥35 kg/m2. Methods A retrospective comparative has been conducted include all who had on an elective...

10.7759/cureus.55782 article EN Cureus 2024-03-08
Rishi Singhal Islam Omar Brijesh Madhok Yashasvi Rajeev Yitka Graham and 95 more Abd A. Tahrani Christian Ludwig Tom Wiggins Kamal Mahawar Michał Pędziwiatr Piotr Major Piotr Zarzycki Athanasios Pantelis Dimitris P. Lapatsanis Georgios Stravodimos Chris Matthys Marc Focquet Wouter Vleeschouwers Antonio Spaventa Carlos Zerrweck Antonio Vitiello Giovanna Berardi Mario Musella Alberto Sanchez-Meza Felipe J. Cantu Fernando de Mora Marco Cantù Abhishek Katakwar D. Nageshwar Reddy H Elmaleh Mohammad Hassan Abdelrahman Elghandour Mohey Elbanna Ahmed Osman Athar Khan Laurent Layani Nalini Kiran Andrey Velikorechin Maria Solovyeva Hamid Melali Shahab Shahabi Ashish Agrawal Apoorv Shrivastava Ankur Sharma Bhavya Narwaria Mahendra Narwaria Asnat Raziel Nasser Sakran Sergio Susmallian Levent Karagöz Murat Akbaba Salih Zeki Pişkin Ahmet Ziya Balta Zafer Şenol Emilio Manno Michele Iovino Ahmed Osman Mohamed Qassem Sebastián Arana-Garza Heitor P. Póvoas Marcos Leão Vilas-Bôas Alan Li Basil J. Ammori Hany Balamoun Mohammed Salman Amrit Manik Nasta Ramen Goel Hugo Sánchez-Aguilar Miguel F. Herrera Adel Abou‐Mrad Lucie Cloix Guilherme Silva Mazzini Leonardo Kristem André Lázaro José Luis Campos Joaquín Bernardo Jesús Santos González Carlos Trindade Octávio Viveiros Rui Ribeiro David Goitein David Hazzan Lior Segev Tamar Beck Hernán Reyes Jerónimo Monterrubio Paulina García Marine Benois Radwan Kassir Alessandro Contine Moustafa Elshafei Sueleyman Aktas Sylvia Weiner Till Heidsieck Luis Level Silvia Piñango Patricia Martínez Ortega Rafael Moncada Victor Valentí Ivan Vlahović

Abstract Background Age ≥ 65 years is regarded as a relative contraindication for bariatric surgery. Advanced age also recognised risk factor adverse outcomes with Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) which continues to wreak havoc on global populations. This study aimed assess the safety of surgery (BS) in this particular group during COVID-19 pandemic comparison younger cohort. Methods We conducted prospective international patients who underwent BS between 1/05/2020 and 31/10/2020....

10.1007/s11695-022-06067-z article EN cc-by Obesity Surgery 2022-05-05
Rishi Singhal Islam Omar Brijesh Madhok Christian Ludwig Abd A. Tahrani and 95 more Kamal Mahawar Michał Pędziwiatr Piotr Major Piotr Zarzycki Athanasios Pantelis Dimitris P. Lapatsanis Georgios Stravodimos Chris Matthys Marc Focquet Wouter Vleeschouwers Antonio Spaventa Carlos Zerrweck Antonio Vitiello Giovanna Berardi Mario Musella Alberto Sanchez-Meza Felipe J. Cantu Fernando de Mora Marco Cantù Abhishek Katakwar D. Nageshwar Reddy H Elmaleh Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan Abdelrahman Elghandour Mohey Elbanna Ahmed Osman Athar Khan Laurent Layani Nalini Kiran Andrey Velikorechin Maria Solovyeva Hamid Melali Shahab Shahabi Ashish Agrawal Apoorv Shrivastava Ankur Sharma Bhavya Narwaria Mahendra Narwaria Asnat Raziel Nasser Sakran Sergio Susmallian Levent Karagöz Murat Akbaba Salih Zeki Pişkin Ahmet Ziya Balta Zafer Şenol Emilio Manno Michele Iovino Ahmed Osman Mohamed Qassem Sebastián Arana-Garza Heitor P. Póvoas Marcos Leão Vilas-Bôas Alan Li Basil J. Ammori Hany Balamoun M Salman Amrit Manik Nasta Ramen Goel Hugo Sánchez-Aguilar Miguel F. Herrera Adel Abou‐Mrad Lucie Cloix Guilherme Silva Mazzini Leonardo Kristem André Lázaro José Luis Campos Joaquín Bernardo Jesús Santos González Carlos Alberto Dolezel Trindade Octávio Viveiros Rui Ribeiro David Goitein David Hazzan Lior Segev Tamar Beck Hernán Reyes Jerónimo Monterrubio Paulina García Marine Benois Radwan Kassir Alessandro Contine Moustafa Elshafei Sueleyman Aktas Sylvia Weiner Till Heidsieck Luis Level Silvia Piñango Patricia Martínez Ortega Rafael Moncada Victor Valentí Ivan Vlahović Zdenko Boras Arnaud Liagre F. De Martini

It has been suggested that patients with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of > 60 kg/m2 should be offered expedited Bariatric Surgery (BS) during the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The main objective this study was to assess safety approach. We conducted global who underwent BS between 1/05/2020 and 31/10/2020. Patients were divided into three groups according their preoperative BMI - Group I (BMI<50 kg/m2), II (BMI 50–60 III (BMI>60 kg/m2). effect on 30-day morbidity mortality,...

10.1016/j.orcp.2022.06.003 article EN cc-by Obesity Research & Clinical Practice 2022-05-01

Abstract Background There is little available data on common general surgical never events (NEs). Lack of this information may have affected our attempts to reduce the incidence these potentially serious clinical incidents. Objectives The purpose study was identify NEs from held by National Health Service (NHS) England. Methods We analysed NHS England NE April 2012 February 2020 NEs. Results a total 797 identified under three main categories such as wrong-site surgery (n = 427; 53.58%),...

10.1093/intqhc/mzab045 article EN International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2021-03-01

Nosocomial infection is a significant burden on healthcare facilities. Its multifactorial nature renders it challenging to control. However, quality necessitates safer service that poses no harm the patient.The aim of this project was reduce rates in adult ITU benchmark levels.We conducted an internal audit as result high ITU. The started with root cause analysis using fishbone tool. FOCUS-PDCA tool used design framework. We introduced change staff uniform laundry and organized campaign...

10.3233/jrs-190028 article EN International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine 2020-06-04
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