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Dr, Department of Anesthesia/ICU and Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Biography

Dr. Jafar H Faraj is a professor in the Department of Anesthesia/ICU and Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar. His study interests major in anesthesia, Research in Anesthesiology, General Anesthesia, Advances in Anesthesia. In recent years, 
he has studied several studies including Advances in Anesthesia and aesthetic Technology. Currently, Dr. Jafar H Faraj is the author/editor/reviewer in several international journals. He published 20 articles in many journals and the articles are informative and got good citations.
 

Publications

• Research Article   
  Short Neck, a New Criterion for Airway Assessment: A Pilot, Cross Sectional Single Blind Study
  Author(s): Jafar H Faraj*, Yasir E Ahmed, Chetankumar B Raval, Taisir M Yousif, Neeraj Kumar, Sandesh Kamat, Saba K Mahdi, Ahamed L Aliyar and Ahmed MR Taha
  
  Background: “Short Neck” is a term used by anesthesiologists and emergency physicians to describe one of the risk factors of difficult airway management; but there is no consensus on what length constitutes short neck. Study objective: To measure neck length and associate it with intubation difficulty in obese patients, the secondary objective to find any relationship between short neck, difficult intubation and increasing body mass index. Design: A pilot, cross sectional prospective single blinded study. Sample: 97 adult patients scheduled for elective surgery, in Hamad General Hospital between March 2018 and October 2018, under general anesthesia, was recruited for the study. Results: Airway assessment using anthropometric measurements, including neck length, were.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2155-6148.20.11.954

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