Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
General Surgery
Dr. Haytham M. Kaafarani, MD
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Haytham Kaafarani works in the field of General Surgery. He received awards:"Fellow (FACS)". Doctor Haytham M. Kaafarani, MD is also a published doctor. He has 41 publication published. The most recent publication is: Explaining the excess morbidity of emergency general surgery: packed red blood cell and fresh frozen plasma transfusion practices are associated with major complicatio...
Publications
- Delayed Laparotomy After Selective Non-operative Management of Penetrating Abdominal Injuries.
- The influence of anesthesia on heart rate complexity during elective and urgent surgery in 128 patients.
- Examining the Impact of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) on the Veterans Health Administration: The Case of Readmissions.
- Preoperative evaluation of penetrating esophageal trauma in the current era: An analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank.
- Goal-directed diuresis: A case - control study of continuous furosemide infusion in critically ill trauma patients.
- The psychosocial toll of a surgical career.
- When things go wrong.
- Validating the patient safety indicators in the Veterans Health Administration: do they accurately identify true safety events?
- Applying trigger tools to detect adverse events associated with outpatient surgery.
- Nutritional support of the obese and critically ill obese patient.
- Consensus building for development of outpatient adverse drug event triggers.
- Spontaneous hemothorax in multiple exostoses: a case report and review of literature.
- How valid is the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator "postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma"?
- How valid is the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator "postoperative respiratory failure"?
- Addressing workforce issues with foreign medical graduates.
- Could international medical graduates offer a solution to the surgical workforce crisis? Balancing national interest and global responsibility.
- Seroma in ventral incisional herniorrhaphy: incidence, predictors and outcome.
- Using administrative data to identify surgical adverse events: an introduction to the Patient Safety Indicators.
- The better colectomy project: association of evidence-based best-practice adherence rates to outcomes in colorectal surgery.
- Careers in surgical research: Basic science, clinical research, health policy, and surgical innovation.
- Classification versus valuation and grading of surgical complications.
- Mentoring the modern surgeon.
- How does patient safety culture in the operating room and post-anesthesia care unit compare to the rest of the hospital?
- International medical graduates in surgery: facing challenges and breaking stereotypes.
- beta-Blockade in noncardiac surgery: outcome at all levels of cardiac risk.
- Does resident hours reduction have an impact on surgical outcomes?
- Does surgeon frustration and satisfaction with the operation predict outcomes of open or laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair?
- Linezolid eradicates MRSA better than vancomycin from surgical-site infections.
- Thirty-day and one-year predictors of death in noncardiac major surgical procedures.
- Spontaneous intracholecystic bleeding in a patient with von Willebrand's disease.
- Surgeon preference and variation of surgical care.
- Designing an abstraction instrument: lessons from efforts to validate the AHRQ patient safety indicators.
- Validity of selected Patient Safety Indicators: opportunities and concerns.
- Trends, outcomes, and predictors of open and conversion to open cholecystectomy in Veterans Health Administration hospitals.
- Predictors of surgical site infection in laparoscopic and open ventral incisional herniorrhaphy.
- Development of trigger tools for surveillance of adverse events in ambulatory surgery.
- Classification and valuation of postoperative complications in a randomized trial of open versus laparoscopic ventral herniorrhaphy.
- The surgeon''s ego and reporting of clinical failure.
- Non-trocar related major retroperitoneal bleeding during laparoscopic appendectomy.
- Explaining the excess morbidity of emergency general surgery: packed red blood cell and fresh frozen plasma transfusion practices are associated with major complicatio...
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Tufts Medical Center -
University of South Florida -
Brigham and Women's Hospital -
American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1750570784 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | KAAFARANI |
| First Name Of The Provider | HAYTHAM |
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