Scholars@Duke
Omar Al-Qudsi

Selected Publications

Pain Trajectories After Cardiac Surgery Performed Via Midline Sternotomy.

Journal Article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · December 2025 OBJECTIVES: Acute pain after cardiac surgery performed via midline sternotomy is reported to be moderate to severe in intensity in up to three-quarters of patients in the early postoperative period. This work was designed to describe different pain traject ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Scoping Review of Validated Echocardiographic Methods for Grading Right Ventricular Dysfunction: Proposal for an Evidence-Based Multiparametric Framework.

Journal Article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · November 2025 Assessing the severity of right ventricular (RV) dysfunction using echocardiography (echo) remains subjective, in part because current guidelines do not recommend how to synthesize various echo parameters to form a global assessment of RV dysfunction. To a ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Evidence-Based Echocardiographic Image Acquisition Protocol for Evaluating Right Ventricular Function.

Journal Article J Vis Exp · July 22, 2025 A major risk factor for morbidity and mortality in critical illness is the presence of right ventricular dysfunction (RVD). However, characterizing and grading the severity of RVD remains highly subjective, with significant inter-operator and intra-operato ... Full text Link to item Cite

Perioperative Albumin Among Adults Undergoing Thoracic Surgery in the United States: Utilization, Associations With Clinical Outcomes, and Contribution to Hospital Costs.

Journal Article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · November 2024 OBJECTIVES: To estimate the use of albumin among adults undergoing thoracic surgery in the United States, compare baseline characteristics, clinical and cost outcomes of recipients versus nonrecipients, and determine albumin's contribution to total hospita ... Full text Link to item Cite

Fulminant sepsis secondary to severe lung contusion from the Lund University Cardiopulmonary Assist System device.

Journal Article Perfusion · April 2024 INTRODUCTION: Portable mechanical chest compression devices have been developed to improve upon many problems of manual compression, increase patient survival, and improve neurologic outcomes. However, the use of these devices is not without risk of harm t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Gastric Point of Care Ultrasound in Adults: Image Acquisition and Interpretation.

Journal Article J Vis Exp · September 22, 2023 Over the past two decades, diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has emerged as a rapid and non-invasive bedside tool for addressing clinical inquiries related to gastric content. One emerging concern pertains to patients about to undergo sedation an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Voxelotor as a Treatment of Persistent Hypoxia in the ICU.

Journal Article Chest · July 2023 Hypoxia is encountered frequently in the ICU as a result of a wide range of pathologic characteristics. The oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve describes hemoglobin's affinity for a given Po2 and factors affecting uptake and offload. Research in manipulat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Continuous renal replacement therapy and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: implications in the COVID-19 era.

Journal Article Perfusion · January 2023 The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19)) was identified as the causative agent of viral pneumonias in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and has emerged as a pandemic causing acute respiratory di ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pulmonary artery pulsatility index as a predictor of right ventricular failure in left ventricular assist device recipients: A systematic review.

Journal Article J Heart Lung Transplant · August 2022 BACKGROUND: It is critical to identify patients at increased risk of right ventricular failure (RVF) before left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation. Pulmonary artery pulsatility index (PAPi) is a hemodynamic parameter that is a specific measure ... Full text Link to item Cite

Superior vena cava syndrome during veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for COVID-19.

Journal Article Perfusion · September 2021 Superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome is typically associated with malignant tumors obstructing the SVC, but as many as 40% of cases have other etiologies. SVC obstruction was previously described during veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy ... Full text Link to item Cite

Echo in Atrial Flutter.

Journal Article Anesthesiology · July 1, 2021 Full text Link to item Cite

Refractory hypoxemia on venovenous ECMO

Chapter · January 19, 2021 Despite numerous advances in the care of patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), severe cases still carry extreme mortality and dismal odds for survival [1]. This has driven a search over the years for rescue therapies when convential mec ... Cite