Publications from 2015
How vital are the vital signs? a multi-center observational study from emergency departments of Pakistan., Amber Mehmood, Siran He, Waleed Zafar, Noor Baig, Fareed Ahmed Sumalani, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
Differences in risk-adjusted outcome of road traffic injuries in urban tertiary care centers of Pakistan, Amber Mehmood, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Mohammed Umer Mir, and Rashid Jooma
The Pakistan National Emergency Department Surveillance Study (Pak-NEDS): introducing a pilot surveillance, Mohammed Umer Mir, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Haseeb Khawaja, Shiraz Qayoom Afridi, Sabir Ali, Muhammad Mujeeb Khan, Seemin Jamali, Fareed Ahmed Sumalani, Adnan A. Hyder, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
The Pakistan National Emergency Department surveillance study (Pak-NEDS): introducing a pilot surveillance, Mohammed Umer Mir, Abdulgafoor Muhammad Bachani, Haseeb Khawaja, Shiraz Qayoom Afridi, Sabir Ali, Muhammad Mujeeb Khan, Seemin Jamali, Fareed Ahmed Sumalani, Adnan Ali Hyder, and Junaid Ali Razzak
Frequency of metabolic syndrome in psychiatric patients, is this the time to develop a standardized protocol to reduce the morbidity from an acute care psychiatry unit., Tariq Munshi, Archana Patel, Mir Nadeem Mazhar, and Emaduddin Siddiqui
Characteristics of chest pain and its acute management in a low-middle income country: analysis of emergency department surveillance data from Pakistan, Nino Paichadze, Badar Afzal Khan, Nukhba Zia, Rakshinda Mujeeb, Muhammad Mujeeb Khan, and Junaid Ali Razzak
Does base deficit predict mortality in patients with severe traumatic brain injury?, Hussain Shallwani, Muhammad Waqas, Shahan Waheed, Mubbashira Siddiqui, Asher Feroz, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Developing paediatric emergency medicine—an opinion from a developing country tertiary care center, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Shahan Waheed, and Irum Qamar Khan
Burn injury characteristics: Findings from Pakistan national emergency department surveillance study, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Nukhba Zia, Asher Feroze, Safia Awan, Arifa Liaquat Ali, Junaid Razzak, Adnan Hyder, and Asad Latif
Ambulance use in Pakistan: an analysis of surveillance data from emergency departments in Pakistan., Nukhba Zia, Hira Shahzad, Syed Muhammad Baqir, Shahab Shaukat, Haris Ahmad, Courtland Robinson, Adnan Ali Hyder, and Junaid Razzak
Publications from 2014
Hypertensive crisis, burden, management, and outcome at a Tertiary Care Center in Karachi, Aysha Almas, Ayaz Ghouse, Ahmed Raza Iftikhar, and Munawar Khursheed
Hypertensive crisis, burden, management, and outcome at a tertiary care center in Karachi., Aysha Almas, Ayaz Ghouse, Ahmed Raz Raza Iftikhar, and Munawar Khursheed
Pakistan Cannot Afford Defensive Medicine, Syed Muhammad Baqir
CT scan in children with acute bacterial meningitis: experience from emergency department of a tertiary-care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Jabeen Fayyaz, Arshalooz Rehman, Akhter Hamid, Munawar Khursheed, Nukhba Zia, Asher Feroze, and Uzma R. Khan
Age related clinical manifestation of acute bacterial meningitis in children, Jabeen Fayyaz, Arshalooz Rehman, Akhter Hamid, Munawar Khursheed, Nukhbha Zia, and Asher Feroze
Rota virus diarrhea in hospitalized children, Muhammad Irfan Habib, Sayyeda Ghazala Kazi, Khalid Mehmood Ahmed Khan, and Nukhba Zia
current state of poison control centers in Pakistan and the need for capacity building., Nadeem Ullah Khan, Mohammed Umer Mir, Uzma Rahim Khan, Afshan Rahim Khan, Jamal Ara, Khurram Raja, and Farhat Hussain Mirza
Real-time patient satisfaction of emergency department services in a tertiary-care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Munawar Khursheed, Jabeen Fayyaz, Nukhba Zia, Asher Feroze, Ahsan Jamil, and Syed Muhammad Baqir
An itinerant observer, Asad Mian and Riaz Khan
Deliberate self-harm patients visiting public and private emergency departments of Karachi, Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Zaman Khan, Badar Afzal Khan, Sumaiya Tauseeq Khan, and Rooham Nakeer
Attitudes towards child restrains and seat belts usage in the learned population of Karachi, Pakistan., Emaduddin Siddiqui, Kiran Ejaz, Shahan Waheed, Ghazala Irfan Kazi, and Munawar Khursheed
Frequency of retinopathy of prematurity in premature neonates with a birth weight below 1500 grams and a gestational age less than 32 weeks: a study from a tertiary care hospital in a lower-middle income country, Arjumand Sohaila, Shiyam Sunder Tikmani, Iqtidar Ahmed Khan, Huba Atiq, Ali Syed Muhammad Akhtar, Prem Kumar, and Kishwer Kumar
Confusing presentation of chaetomium brain abscess., Muhammad Waqas, Shahan Waheed, Salman Ahmed Mangrio, Sana Rashid, Mohsin Qadeer, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Moral experience and ethical challenges in an emergency department in Pakistan: emergency physicians' perspectives, Waleed Zafar
Publications from 2013
Salmonella Cholecystitis: Atypical Presentation of a Typical Condition, Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, Maqbool Qadir, Huba Atiq, and Muhammad Hamid
A biomarker-based approach to infectious disease in the pediatric emergency department, Mayank Aranke and Asad Mian
Presenting budget in a research grant application, Junaid Ahmed Bhatti, Umbreen Akhtar, Bilal Arshed Butt, and Naveed Zafar Janjua
Variations in sub-national road traffic fatality trends in a low-income country., Junaid A. Bhatti, Ajmal Khan Khoso, Hunniya Waseem, Uzma Rahim Khan, and J. Razzak
Availability and quality of prehospital care on pakistani interurban roads, Junaid A. Bhatti, Hunniya Waseem, Junaid A. Razzak, Naeem-Ul-Lah Shiekh, Ajmal Khan Khoso, and L-Rachid Salmi
Acute effects of hemodialysis on nitrite and nitrate: Potential cardiovascular implications in dialysis patients, Nathan S. Bryan, Ashley C. Torregrossa, Asad Mian, D. Lindsey Berkson, Christian M. Westby, and Jack W. Moncrief
Global gene expression profiling in infants with acute respiratory syncytial virus broncholitis demonstrates systemic activation of interferon signaling networks, Kristine L. Bucasas, Asad Mian, Gail J. Demmler- Harrison, Alison C. Caviness, Pedro A. Piedra, Luis M. Franco, Chad A. Shaw, Yijie Zha, Xueqing Wang, and Molly S. Bray
Insights on the effects of patient perceptions and awareness on ambulance usage in Karachi, Pakistan., Aruna Chandran, Kiran Ejaz, Rabia Karani, Syed Muhammad Baqir, Junaid Abdul Razzak, and Adnan Hyder
Disseminating childhood home injury risk reduction information in Pakistan: results from a community-based pilot study, Aruna Chandran, Uzma Rahim Khan, Nukhba Zia, Asher Feroze, Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Cheng-Ming Huang, Junaid A. Razzak, and Adnan A. Hyder
Pattern of emergency department visits by elderly patients: study from a tertiary care hospital, Karachi, Jabeen Fayyaz, Munawar Khursheed, Mohammed Umer Mir, and Uzma Rahim Khan
Missing the boat: odds for the patients who leave ED without being seen, Jabeen Fayyaz, Munawar Khursheed, Mohammed Umer Mir, and Amber Mehmood
Importance of clinical toxicology teaching and its impact in improving knowledge: sharing experience from a workshop, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Jabeen Fayyaz, Uzma Rahim Khan, and Asher Feroze
Importance of clinical toxicology teaching and its impact in improving, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Jabeen Fayyaz, Uzma R. Khan, and Asher Feroze
Intubation in emergency department of a tertiary care hospital in a low-income, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Uzma R. Khan, Kiran Ejaz, Humaid Ahmad, Nukhba Zia, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
Anaphylaxis: incidence, presentation, causes and outcome in patients in a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Nishi Shakeel, Aamir Makda, Ammar Shaheen Mallick, Maria Ali Memon, Sohaib Haider Hashm, Uzma R. Khan, and Juniad A. Razzak
School-based injury outcomes in children from a low-income setting: results from the pilot injury surveillance in Rawalpindi city, Pakistan, Uzma Rahim Khan, Junaid A. Bhatti, Nukhba Zia, and Umar Farooq
Home injury risks to young children in Karachi, Pakistan: a pilot study., Uzma Rahim Khan, Aruna Chandran, Nukhba Zia, Cheng-Ming Huang, Sarah Stewart De Ramirez, Asher Feroze, Adnan Ali Hyder, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
A comparison of WHO guidelines issued in 1997 and 2009 for dengue fever - single centre experience., Munawar Khursheed, Uzma R. Khan, Kiran Ejaz, Jabeen Fayyaz, Irum Qamar, and J. Razzak
Development and pilot implementation of a locally developed Trauma Registry: lessons learnt in a low-income country, Amber Mehmood, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Sarah Kabir, Ellen J. MacKenzie, and Adnan A. Hyder
The baby with the bucket list, Asad Mian
Nitric oxide and its metabolites in the critical phase of illness: Rapid biomarkers in the making, Asad Mian, Mayank Aranke, and Nathan S. Bryan
Commercial vehicles and road safety in Pakistan: exploring high-risk attributes among drivers and vehicles, Mohammed Umer Mir, Junaid Adbul Razzak, and Khabir Ahmad
Acute mesenteric ischaemia with infective endocarditis: is there a role for anticoagulation?, Muhammad Waqas, Shahan Waheed, Zishan Haider, and Amir Hafeez Amir
Acute mesenteric ischaemia with infective endocarditis: is there a role for anticoagulation?, Muhammad Waqas, Shahan Waheed, Zishan Haider, and Amir Hafeez Shariff
Increasing health care costs and its adverse impact on healthcare, Waris Qidwai
Emergency and trauma care in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study of healthcare levels., Junaid Abdul Razzak, Syed M. Baqir, Uzma Rahim Khan, David Heller, Junaid Bhatti, and Adnan A. Hyder
A child an hour: burden of injury deaths among children under 5 in Pakistan., Junaid A. Razzak, Uzma R. Khan, Nukhba Zia, and Iqbal Azam
Glucocorticoids induced allergic reaction, Emad Uddin Siddiqui and Shakeel Ahmed
Strengthening paediatric emergency medicine in Pakistan is our need to reach millennium development goal 4., Emaduddin Siddiqui and Kiran Ejaz
Mothers’s education and working status; do they contribute to corrosive poisoning among paediatric patients of Karachi, Pakistan?, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Kiran Ejaz, Sayyeda Ghazala Irfan Kazi, Saif Siddiqui, and Syed Jamal Raza
The unseen and untold issues of clinical trials and research ethics in Pakistan., Shahan Waheed and Emaduddin Siddiqui
Acute mesenteric ischaemia with infective endocarditis: is there a role for anticoagulation?, Muhammad Waqas, Shahan Waheed, Zishan Haider, and Amir Hafeez Shariff
Health care personnel and workplace violence in the emergency departments of a volatile metropolis: results from Karachi, Pakistan, Waleed Zafar, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Kiran Ejaz, Muhammad Umer Shehzad, Uzma Rahim Khan, Seemin Jamali, and Junaid Razzak
Health care personnel and workplace violence in the emergency departments of a volatile metropolis:Results from Karachi, Pakistan., Waleed Zafar, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Kiran Ejaz, Muhammad Umer Shehzad, Uzma Rahim Khan, Seemin Jamali, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
Publications from 2012
The use of non-standard motorcycle helmets in low- and middle-income countries: a multicentre study, Williams Ackaah, Francis Afukaar, Williams Agyemang, Trinh Thuy Anh, A R Hejar, Ghaffar Abdul, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Hidalgo Solórzano Elisa, Híjar Martha, Adnan Ali Hyder, Cristina Inclán Valadez, Subramaniam Kulanthayan, Robyn Norton, Wilson Odero, Eme T. Owoaje, Margie Peden, Krishnan Rajam, Junaid Razzak, Adesola Oluwafunmilola Sangowawa, Jawaid Shah, Pham Le Tuan, RS Radin Umar, Nguyen Thi Van Anh, Marc Van der Putten, Nitaya Vajanapoom, Nuntavarn Vichit Vadakan, Kaviyarasu Yellappan, and James Yu
World Health Assembly Resolution 60.22 and its importance as a health care policy tool for improving emergency care access and availability globally., Philip D. Anderson, Robert E. Sute, Terrence Mulligan, Gautam Bodiwala, Junaid Razzak, and Charles Mock
Associations of traffic safety attitudes and ticket fixing behaviours with the crash history of Pakistani drivers, Mohsin Durrani, Hunniya Waseem, Junaid A. Bhatti, Junaid A. Razzak, and Rizwan Naseer
Beta2-adrenoceptor agonists for dysmenorrhoea, Zbys Fedorowicz, Mona Nasser, Vanitha A. Jagannath, Jessica H. Beaman, Kiran Ejaz, and Esther J. van Zuuren
Pain assessment and management in different wards of a tertiary care hospital, Anwar ul Huda, Mohammad Hamid, Saboor Ahmed, Syed Muhammad Baqir, and Aysha Almas
Childhood unintentional injuries: need for a community-based home injury risk assessments in Pakistan., Adnan A. Hyder, Aruna Chandran, Uzma R. Khan, Nukhba Zia, Cheng-Ming Huang, Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, and Junaid Razzak
Analytical techniques for assaying nitric oxide bioactivity, Hong Jiang, Deepa Parthasarathy, Ashley C. Torregrossa, Asad Mian, and Nathan S. Bryan
Prolonged intermediate syndrome pue to prganophosphate poisoning, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Muhammad Junaid Patel, M. N.M. Hifath, Saima Kamal, and Syed Ather Hussain
Severity of Plasmodium vivax malaria in Karachi: a cross-sectional study, Amber Mehmood and Kiran Ejaz
Overcrowded emergency departments: a problem looking for solution., Amber Mehmood, Badar Afzal Khan, and Munawar Khursheed
Differences in risk-adjusted outcome of road traffic injuries in urban tertiary care centres of Pakistan: Analysis of surveillance data, Amber Mehmood, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Mohammed Umer Mir, and Rashid Jooma
In sickness and in health...until death do us part, Asad Mian
Translational research in the developing world: Molecular medicine goes global, Asad Mian, Nathan S. Bryan, and Anita K. M. Zaidi
Nitric oxide metabolites as biomarkers for influenza-like acute respiratory infections presenting to the emergency room, Asad Mian, Federico R Laham, Andrea T Cruz, Harsha Garg, Charles G Macias, A. Chantal Caviness, and Pedro A Piedra
In sickness and in health till death do us part, Asad Mian and Rakhshee Niazi
Alcohol and marijuana use while driving-an unexpected crash risk in Pakistani commercial drivers: a cross-sectional survey, Mohammed Umer Mir, Imran Khan, Bilal Ahmed, and J. Razzak
APACHE II scores as predictors of cardio pulmonary resuscitation outcome: Evidence from a tertiary care institute in a low-income country, Muhammad Junaid Patel, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Muhammad Furqan, Safia Awan, Muhammad Shoaib Khan, Waqar Kashif, Ayesha L. Sorathia, Syed Ather Hussain, and Mohammed Umer Mir
A successful model of road traffic injury surveillance in a developing country: Process and lessons learnt, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Amber Mehmood, Syed Ameer Hussain, Mir Shabbar Ali, and Rashid Jooma
A meta-analysis and systematic review of computed tomography angiography as a diagnostic triage tool for patients with chest pain presenting to the emergency department, Zainab Samad, Abdul Hakeem, Syed Shad Mahmood, Karen Pieper, Manesh R. Patel, David L. Simel, and Pamela S. Douglas
Accuracy of diagnosis and relationship with quality of emergency medicine training program, Muhammad Shahid, Kamran Hameed, Romaina Iqbal, Osama Afzal, Rooham Nakeer, and Junaid Razzak
Emergency Triage: Extend of our knowledge, Emaduddin Siddiqui
Neurologic complications of bacterial meningitis, Emaduddin Siddiqui
Neurologic complications of bacterial meningitis, Emaduddin Siddiqui
Unintentional, paediatric domestic injury in a semi rural area of Karachi., Emaduddin Siddiqui, Kiran Ejaz, and Uzma Siddiqui
Role of dexamethasone in meningitis, Emaduddin Siddiqui and Ghazala Irfan Qazi
Role of dexamethasone in meningitis, Emaduddin Siddiqui and Ghazala Irfan Qazi
Pediatric endotracheal intubations for airway management in the emergency department., Bano Surraiya, Akhtar Saleem, Nukhba Zia, Uzma Rahim Khan, and Anwarul Haq
Understanding unintentional childhood home injuries: pilot surveillance data from Karachi, Pakistan., Nukhba Zia, Uzma R. Khan, J. Razzak, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, and Adnan A. Hyder
Publications from 2011
Non-traumatic coma in paediatric patients: Etiology and predictors of outcome, Saba Ahmed, Kiran Ejaz, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Maimoona Azhar Salim, and Muhammad Umer Rais Khan
Towards nitric oxide based diagnostics: Call to action, Mayank Aranke, Nathan S. Bryan, and Asad Mian
Role of pre-hospital care and ambulance services in Karachi, Syed Muhammad Baqir and Kiran Ejaz
Influence of an enforcement campaign on seat-belt and helmet wearing, karachi-hala highway, pakistan., Junaid A. Bhatti, Kiran Ejaz, Junaid A Razzak, Israr Ali Tunio, and Irshad Sodhar
Burden and factors associated with highway work-zone crashes, on a section of the Karachi-Hala Road, Pakistan, Junaid Ahmad Bhatti, J. Razzak, Emmanuel Lagarde, and L. Rachid Salmi
Differences in police, ambulance, and emergency department reporting of traffic injuries on Karachi-Hala road, Pakistan, Junaid Ali Bhatti, Junaid Razzak, Emmanuel Lagarde, and Louis Rachid Salmi
Hazard perception at high- and low-risk road sites: a pilot study of interurban roads in Pakistan and Cameroon, Junaid A. Bhatti, Junaid A. Razzak, Emmanuel Lagarde, Joeelle Sobngwi-Tambekou, Ahmadou Alioum, and L. Rachid Salmi
Urinary biomarkers to detect acute kidney injury in the pediatric emergency center, Yue Du, Michael Zappitelli, Asad Mian, Michael Bennett, Qing Ma, Prasad Devarajan, Ravindra Mehta, and Stuart L. Goldstein
Pleural effusion in dengue Karachi perspective, Kiran Ejaz, Munawar Khursheed, and Ambreen Raza
Involvement of medical students and fresh medical graduates of Karachi, Pakistan in research, Kiran Ejaz, Muhammad Shahid Shamim, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, and Syed Abid Hussain
Requirement of argininosuccinate lyase for systemic nitric oxide production, Ayelet Erez, Sandesh CS. Nagamani, Oleg A. Shchelochkov, Muralidhar H. Premkumar, Philippe M. Campeau Campeau, Yuqing Chen, Harsha K. Garg, Li Li, Asad Mian, Terry K. Bertin, Jennifer O. Black, Heng Zeng, Yaoping Tang, Anilkumar K. Reddy, Marshall Summar, William E. O’Brien, David G. Harrison, William E. Mitch, Juan C. Marini, Judy L. Aschner, Nathan S. Bryan, and Brendan Lee
Road traffic injuries in Rawalpindi city, Pakistan., Umar Farooq, Junaid Ali Bhatti, M. Siddiq, M. Majeed, N. Malik, Junaid Razzak, and M. M. Khan
Unplanned return visit to emergency department: a descriptive study from a tertiary care hospital in a low-income country, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Ali Faisal Saleem, Uzma R. Khan, Mohammed Umer Mir, and Bushra Aashiq
Comparison of Highway Crash Reporting in Pakistan With the World Health Organization Injury Surveillance Guidelines, Ajmal Khan Khoso, Diana Stark Ekman, and Junaid A. Bhatti