Dr. Ahmed Hegazy

hegazy-aAssociate Professor

Publications

Journal Articles
Protocol for a systematic review on effective patient positioning for rapid sequence intubation. Asaanth
Sivajohan, Sarah Ct Krause, Ahmed Hegazy, Marat Slessarev. BMJ Open 2022 Nov 4;12(11):e062988. doi:
10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062988. PMID: 36332945.

Non-Invasive Monitoring of Core Body Temperature for Targeted Temperature Management in Post-Cardiac
Arrest Care. Fiorini K, Tamasi T, Dorie J, Hegazy AF, Lee TY, Slessarev M. Frontiers in medicine. 2022 Apr
13;9:810825. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.810825. PMID: 35492302

Inferior Vena Cava Assessment in Term Pregnant Women using Ultrasound: A Comparison of the Subcostal and
Right Upper Quadrant Views. Fatemah Qasem, Ahmed F Hegazy, John G Fuller, Ronit Lavi, Sudha I Singh.
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2021 Sep 12; doi: 10.1177/0310057X211034181. PMID: 34514866.

Knowledge translation tools to guide care of non-intubated patients with acute respiratory illness during the
COVID-19 Pandemic. David Leasa, Paul Cameron, Kimia Honarmand, Tina Mele, Rob Arntfield, John Basmaji,
Ian Dashnay, Rob Ducharme, Belinda Gougoulias, Jeff Granton, Wael Haddara, Ahmed F Hegazy, Ravi Taneja,
Marat Slessarev, Dave Nagpal, Claudio Martin, Karen J Bosma et al. Critical Care 2021 Jan 8;25(1):22. doi:
10.1186/s13054-020-03415-2. PMID: 33419456

Canadian Recommendations for Training and Performance in Basic Perioperative Point of Care Ultrasound:
Recommendations from a Consensus of Canadian Anesthesiology Academic Centers. Massimiliano Meineri,
Ramiro Arellano, Gregory Bryson, Cristian Arzola, Robert Chen, Peter Collins, Andre Denault, Georges
Desjardins, Ashraf Fayad, Duane Funk, Ahmed F. Hegazy, Han Kim, Marelise Kruger, RichelleKruisselbrink,
Anahi Perlas, Christopher Prabhakar, Summer Syed, Surita Sidhu, Robert Tanzola, Adriaan Van Rensburg,
Hesham Talab, Annette Vegas, Daniel Bainbridge. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 2021 Mar;68(3):376-386.
doi: 10.1007/s12630-020-01867-2. PMID: 33236278

The Use of Central Venous to Arterial Carbon Dioxide Tension Gap for Outcome Prediction in Critically Ill
Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Al Duhailib Z, Hegazy AF, Lalli R, Fiorini K, Priestap F,
Iansavichene A, Slessarev M. Critical Care Medicine 2020 Dec;48(12):1855-1861. doi:
10.1097/CCM.0000000000004578. PMID: 33003080.

Critical Care Management of the Acute Postimplant LVAD Patient. Nepomuceno RG, Goldraich LA, De S,
Hegazy AF, Bainbridge D, Algadheeb M, Nagpal AD. Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2020 Feb 1; 36 (2):
313-316, DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2019.11.034. PMID: 32036871.

Identifying barriers to the use of ultrasound in the perioperative period: a survey of southwestern Ontario
anesthesiologists. Chui J, Lavi R, Hegazy AF, Jones PM, Arellano R, Yang H, Bainbridge D. BMC Health
Services Research 2019 Apr 4; 19 (1): 214, DOI: 10.1186/s12913-019-4040-2. PMID: 30947715.

Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine A-Z: An Encyclopaedia of Principles and Practice, 6th
Edition: Book Review. Ahmed F. Hegazy. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, 2019 Mar 15: 346–347, DOI:
10.1007/s12630-018-1243-7.

Current Advances in the Use of Therapeutic Hypothermia. Polderman K, Hegazy A, Lundbye J, Watson N.
Therapeutic Hypothermia & Temperature Management, 2019 Jan 7, Coauthor, DOI:
10.1089/ther.2018.29055.khp. PMID: 30614777.

Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Management of Patients After Cardiac Arrest: Now the Real Work Begins. Randhawa
VK, Grunau BE, Debicki DB, Zhou J, Hegazy AF, McPherson T, Nagpal AD. Canadian Journal of Cardiology,
2018 Feb 1; 34 (2): 156-167. DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2017.11.013. PMID: 29407008.

Esophageal Heat Transfer for Patient Temperature Control and Targeted Temperature Management. Naiman
MI, Gray M, Haymore J, Hegazy AF, Markota A, Badjatia N, Kulstad EB. Journal of Visual Experiments, 2017
Nov 21 (129), https://www.jove.com/video/56579/esophageal-heat-transfer-for-patient- temperature-control-
targeted, DOI: 10.3791/56579. PMID: 29286452.

The esophageal cooling device: A new temperature control tool in the intensivist’s arsenal. Ahmed F Hegazy,
Danielle M Lapierre, Ron Butler, Janet Martin, Eyad Althenayan. Heart & Lung, 2017 Apr 11; 46 (3): 143-148,
http://www.heartandlung.org/article/S0147-9563(17)30102-4/fulltext, DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2017.03.001. PMID:
28410771.

Focused transesophageal echocardiography for emergency physicians-description and results from simulation
training of a structured four-view examination. Arntfield R, Pace J, McLeod S, Granton J, Hegazy A, Lingard L.
Critical Ultrasound Journal, 2015 Dec 1; 7 (1): 27, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4485663/, DOI:
10.1186/s13089-015-0027-3. PMID: 26123608.

Temperature control in critically ill patients with a novel esophageal cooling device: a case series. Ahmed F.
Hegazy, Danielle M. Lapierre, Ron Butler, Eyad Althenayan. BMC Anesthesiology, 2015 Oct 19; 15 (1): 152.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2253/15/152, DOI: 10.1186/s12871-015-0133-6. PMID: 26481105.

 

Book Chapters

Point of Care Ultrasound in the Management of Sepsis. Tharwat Aisa, Saad Mahdy, Ahmed F Hegazy.
Chapter 11, p. 89-97 in: The Sepsis Codex, 1st Edition. Marcio Borges, Jorge Hidalgo, and Javier Pérez-
Fernández (editors). Elsevier Health Sciences (United States); 2023.

Valves. Ahmed F. Hegazy. Chapter 19, p. 167-175. In: Point-of-Care Ultrasound, 2nd Edition. Nilam J Soni,
Robert Arntfield, Pierre Kory, editors. Elsevier Saunders (United States); 2020.

Pulmonary Ultrasound. Nathan Ludwig, Ahmed F. Hegazy. Chapter 28, p. 457- 469 in: Principles and Practice
of Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery, 2nd Edition. Peter Slinger, editor. Springer Nature (Switzerland); 2019.

Oxygen therapy. Ahmed F. Hegazy, Ian McConachie. Chapter 3, p. 20-27 in: Handbook of ICU Therapy, 3rd
Edition. John Fuller, Jeff Granton, Ian McConachie, editors. Cambridge University Press (UK); 2015.

Valves. Colin Gebhardt, Ahmed F. Hegazy, Robert Arntfield. Chapter 16, p.119-125 in: Point-of-Care Ultrasound, 1st Edition. Nilam J Soni, Robert Arntfield, Pierre Kory, editors. Elsevier Saunders (United States); 2015. p.119-125.

 

More

Massimiliano Meineri, Ramiro Arellano, Gregory Bryson, Cristian Arzola, Robert Chen, Peter Collins, Andre Denault, Georges Desjardins, Ashraf Fayad, Duane Funk, Ahmed F. Hegazy, Han Kim, Marelise Kruger, Richelle Kruisselbrink, Anahi Perlas, Christopher Prabhakar, Summer Syed, Surita Sidhu, Robert Tanzola, Adriaan Van Rensburg, Hesham Talab, Annette Vegas, Daniel Bainbridge. Canadian Recommendations for Training and Performance in Basic Perioperative Point of Care Ultrasound: Recommendations from a Consensus of Canadian Anesthesiology Academic Centers. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, 2021 Mar; 68(3): 376-386, DOI: 10.1007/s12630-020-01867-2. PMID: 33236278

David Leasa, Paul Cameron, Kimia Honarmand, Tina Mele, Rob Arntfield, John Basmaji, Ian Dashnay, Rob Ducharme, Belinda Gougoulias, Jeff Granton, Wael Haddara, Ahmed F Hegazy, Karen J Bosma, Kendrah Krouskos, John Landau, Rob Leeper, Christine MacDonald, Claudio Martin, David McCormack, Rachelle McCready, Brenda Morgan, Dave Nagpal, Ruediger Noppens, Allison Oldershaw, Marat Slessarev, Joanne Smith, Michelle Stephens, Ravi Taneja, Susan Whitehouse, Tim Winterburn. Knowledge translation tools to guide care of non-intubated patients with acute respiratory illness during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Critical Care. 2021 Jan 8;25(1):22.  doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-03415-2. PMID: 33419456

Al Duhailib Z, Hegazy AF, Lalli R, Fiorini K, Priestap F, Iansavichene A, Slessarev M. The Use of Central Venous to Arterial Carbon Dioxide Tension Gap for Outcome Prediction in Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Critical Care Medicine, 2020 Sep 30, DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004578. PMID: 33003080

Nepomuceno RG, Goldraich LA, De S, Hegazy AF, Bainbridge D, Algadheeb M, Nagpal AD. Critical Care Management of the Acute Postimplant LVAD Patient. Can J Cardiol. 2020 Feb;36(2):313-316. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2019.11.034. Epub 2019 Dec 20.

Hegazy, A. F. Chapter 19: Valves. In: Soni NJ, Arntfield R, Kory P, editors. Point-of-Care Ultrasound. 2nd ed. Elsevier; 2019. 

Hegazy AF. Book and New Media Reviews: Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine A-Z: An Encyclopaedia of Principles and Practice, 6th Edition. Can J Anesth Can d’anesthésie 2019; 66: 346–7 Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-018-1243-7

Chui J, Lavi R, Hegazy AF, Jones PM, Arellano R, Yang H, Bainbridge D. Identifying barriers to the use of ultrasound in the perioperative period: a survey of southwestern Ontario anesthesiologists. BMC Health Serv Res. 2019 Apr 4;19(1):214. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4040-2.

Polderman K, Hegazy A, Lundbye J, Watson N. Current Advances in the Use of Therapeutic Hypothermia. Ther Hypothermia Temp Manag. 2019 Mar;9(1):2-7. doi: 10.1089/ther.2018.29055.khp. Epub 2019 Jan 7.

Ludwig, N. and Hegazy, A. “Pulmonary Ultrasound" in Principles and Practice of Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery, Slinger, P. (Ed.). Springer International Publishing; 2019 p. 457–69.

Randhawa VK, Grunau BE, Debicki DB, Zhou J, Hegazy AF, McPherson T, Nagpal AD.Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Management of Patients After Cardiac Arrest: Now the Real Work Begins. Can J Cardiol. 2018 Feb;34(2):156-167. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2017.11.013.

Naiman MI, Gray M, Haymore J, Hegazy AF, Markota A, Badjatia N, et al. Esophageal Heat Transfer for Patient Temperature Control and Targeted Temperature ManagementJ. Vis. Exp. (129), e56579, doi:10.3791/56579 (2017).

Hegazy AF, Lapierre DM, Butler R, Martin J, Althenayan E. The esophageal cooling device: A new temperature control tool in the intensivist's arsenal. Heart Lung. 2017 Apr 11. [Epub Ahead of Print]

Hegazy AF, Lapierre DM, Butler R, Althenayan E. Temperature control in critically ill patients with a novel esophageal cooling device: a case series. BMC Anesthesiology. 2015 Oct 19;15(1):152.

Arntfield R, Pace J, McLeod S, Granton J, Hegazy A, Lingard L. Focused transesophageal echocardiography for emergency physicians-description and results from simulation training of a structured four-view examination. Crit Ultrasound J. 2015 Dec;7(1):27. doi: 10.1186/s13089-015-0027-3. Epub 2015 Jun 12.

Gebhardt C, Hegazy AF, Arntfield R. Valves [Chapter 16]. p. 119-125. In: Soni NJ, Arntfield R, Kory P, editors. Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Elsevier Saunders c2015. 

Hegazy AF, McConachie I. Oxygen therapy [Chapter 3]. p. 20-27. In: Fuller J, Granton J, McConachie I, editors. Handbook of ICU Therapy, 3rd Ed. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press; c2015.