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Mazhar Khalil
Researcher at University of Arizona
Publications - 40
Citations - 798
Mazhar Khalil is an academic researcher from University of Arizona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Traumatic brain injury & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 40 publications receiving 646 citations.
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Shock index predicts mortality in geriatric trauma patients: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank
Viraj Pandit,Peter Rhee,Ammar Hashmi,Narong Kulvatunyou,Andrew Tang,Mazhar Khalil,Terence O'Keeffe,Donald J. Green,Randall S. Friese,Bellal Joseph +9 more
TL;DR: SI is an accurate and specific predictor of morbidity and mortality in geriatric trauma patients and should be transferred to a Level 1 trauma center, superior to heart rate and systolic blood pressure for predicting mortality.
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Seasonal Variation in Emergency General Surgery.
Bardiya Zangbar,Peter Rhee,Viraj Pandit,Chiu Hsieh Hsu,Mazhar Khalil,Terence O'Keefe,Leigh Neumayer,Bellal Joseph +7 more
TL;DR: Hospitalization due to EGS adheres to a consistent cyclical pattern, with more admissions occurring during the Summer months, and this information may be useful for hospital resource reallocation and staffing.
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Overuse of helicopter transport in the minimally injured: A health care system problem that should be corrected.
Gary Vercruysse,Randall S. Friese,Mazhar Khalil,Irada Ibrahim-Zada,Bardiya Zangbar,Ammar Hashmi,Andrew Tang,T. O'Keeffe,Narong Kulvatunyou,Donald J. Green,Lynn Gries,Bellal Joseph,Peter Rhee +12 more
TL;DR: Nearly one third of patients transported by helicopter were minimally injured, and significant reduction in transport cost can be made by judicious selection of patients.
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Managing older adults with ground-level falls admitted to a trauma service: the effect of frailty.
Bellal Joseph,Viraj Pandit,Mazhar Khalil,Narong Kulvatunyou,Bardiya Zangbar,Randall S. Friese,M. Jane Mohler,Mindy J. Fain,Peter Rhee +8 more
TL;DR: To determine whether frail elderly adults are at greater risk of fracture after a ground‐level fall (GLF) than those who are not frail, a large number of them are thought to be frail.
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Certified acute care surgery programs improve outcomes in patients undergoing emergency surgery: A nationwide analysis.
Mazhar Khalil,Viraj Pandit,Peter Rhee,Narong Kulvatunyou,Tahereh Orouji,Andrew Tang,Terence O'Keeffe,Lynn Gries,Gary Vercruysse,Randall S. Friese,Bellal Joseph +10 more
TL;DR: TCs with ACS have improved outcomes in EGS procedures compared with both TCs and non-TCs, and ACS training with the associated infrastructure standards may contribute to these improved outcomes.