E141 Journal Club with Morad Hameed on Cardiac Injuries

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e141-journal-club-morad-hameed-cardiac-injuries

In this “journal club” edition of the podcast, we are joined by the thoughtful trauma guru Dr. Hameed to talk about his paper in the Canadian Journal of Surgery (CJS). This paper, authored by Drs. Ball, Lee, Kaminsky and Hameed gets at the “heart” of both the decision-making and technical aspects of treating penetrating cardiac injuries.

YouTube version: https://youtu.be/_g6Nu66Q3AM

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@coldsteelsurgery

Links:

1. Technical considerations in the management of penetrating cardiac injury: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/65/5/E580
2. Sternotomy or drainage for a hemopericardium after penetrating trauma: a randomized controlled trial. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23604058/
3. A caveat to the Performance of Pericardial Ultrasound in Patients with penetrating Cardiac Wounds. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19901678/

Morad Hameed Bio:

Dr. Morad Hameed is a trauma surgeon and intensivist at the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
He completed medical school and surgical residency at the University of Alberta, graduate studies in public health at Harvard University, and fellowships in Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at the University of Miami. He spent 3 years on the surgical faculty at the University of Calgary, before moving to Vancouver.
He is the Head of the UBC and VGH Division of General Surgery and is a Service Chief for Acute Care Surgery at VGH. He also chairs the Research Committee of the Trauma Association of Canada, and is the immediate past chair of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons Committee on Acute Care Surgery.
His research focuses on systems of trauma care and acute care surgery. Dr. Hameed’s research teams have received grants from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and other funding agencies for their work on disparities in injury risk and access to trauma systems in Canada.
The development of promising partnerships with trauma investigators at the University of Cape Town has recently extended this work to South Africa.