Mujahid Al-Busaidi

Citrobacter koseri Meningitis in an Adult Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review

Characteristics and Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients with Raised Cardiac Troponins Admitted in the Intensive Care Unit

Objectives: Critically ill patients have been shown to have raised troponins. The aim of our study was to assess the incidence of myocardial injury in the intensive care unit (ICU) a tertiary care hospital in Oman and assess their management and prognosis. Methods: This was a retrospective study involving adult patient …

Idiopathic Capillary Leak Syndrome (Clarkson’s Disease): First Reported Case in Oman

Idiopathic capillary leak syndrome, also known as Clarkson’s Disease, is a rare cause of hypovolemic shock that physicians should be aware of. It is characterized by a state of hypovolemia with features of widespread fluid third spacing and poses diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Here, we present a challenging cas …

Early Prone versus Supine Positioning in Moderate to Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Objectives: This study sought to determine whether early prone positioning of patients with moderate to severe COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) lowers the mortality rate. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study using data from intensive care units of two tertiary centers in Oman. Adult pa …

“Virtual Interdisciplinary COVID-19 Team”: A Hospital Pandemic Preparedness Approach

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to move at record speed. Health systems and hospitals worldwide face unprecedented challenges to effectively prepare and respond to this extraordinary health crisis and anticipated surge. Hospitals should confront these unparalleled challenges with a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, coo …

Chloral Hydrate Overdose Survived after Cardiac Arrest with Excellent Response to Intravenous β-blocker

Chloral hydrate (CH) poisoning is not commonly seen in the emergency department. CH is a commonly prescribed sedative agent for various day care procedures despite its toxic profile even when other safe sedative medications are available. We report a case of CH poisoning that manifested with neurotoxicity followed by c …

Super Refractory Status Epilepticus in Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy

We present a case of a 38-year-old woman who was at eight weeks of gestation and was admitted to Sultan Qaboos University Hospital with refractory status epilepticus (SE). She presented with a two-day history of fever and a depressed level of consciousness that was followed with generalized tonic-clonic seizures. She p …

Pandemic Influenza A H1N1 in Oman: Epidemiology, Clinical Features, and Outcome of Patients Admitted to Sultan Qaboos University Hospital in 2009

Objectives: Oman experienced the H1N1 pandemic in 2009 that initially started in Mexico and the United States. We present the epidemiology, clinical features, and outcome of cases admitted to Sultan Qaboos University Hospital. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed all patients admitted with confirmed influenza A H1N1 in …

Understanding the Concept of Brain Death in the Middle East

The concept of brain death is still foreign in the Omani community. The notion that an individual is dead, according to medical definition, while the heart is still beating causes a lot of turbulence between the patient’s family and the caring physician. This lack of understanding of the concept of brain death prevents …