Regional perspectives on the realities, risks and future of emergency care. Emergency care in the Middle East is shaped by striking contrasts: rapidly advancing health systems alongside resource limitations, mass gatherings, political instability, extreme climates, remote environments and culturally distinctive clinical decisions.
Emergency Medicine: Challenges in the Middle East brings together clinicians and specialists with regional experience to examine how emergency care is organised, delivered and developed across this diverse setting. Across seven sections, the book explores healthcare systems; Hajj, disaster and prehospital medicine; environmental emergencies; toxicology; selected regional illnesses; education and residency training; and the legal, professional and technological issues shaping the specialty.
Combining clinical perspectives, system-level analysis, field experience and practical recommendations, this volume will be a valuable reference for emergency physicians and trainees, paramedics, nurses, educators, hospital leaders, policymakers and other professionals involved in acute and emergency care across the Middle East and North Africa.
Inside this volume: healthcare systems and policy; Hajj, disaster and prehospital medicine; environmental emergencies; toxicology; region-specific medical conditions; education and residency training; and medico-legal issues, burnout and artificial intelligence.
Editors and affiliations
- Asaad S. Shujaa, MD, FRCPC, FAAEM, Editor-in-Chief. Consultant, Emergency Medicine, ICU, Trauma, EMS and Disaster Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
- Sameer Alhamid, MD, FRCPC, FACEP, FAAEM, EMS, Associate Editor. Senior Emergency Medicine Consultant (Eastern Health Cluster); Head of ED, Jubail General Hospital, Jubail, Saudi Arabia
- Prof. Nadeem Qureshi (deceased), Associate Editor. Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. This volume is dedicated to his memory.
Authors and affiliations
- Saleh Fares Al-Ali, International Federation for Emergency Medicine
- Mobarak Al Mulhim, Eastern Health Cluster, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
- Gamal Eldin Abbas Khalifa, Consultant in Emergency and Disaster Medicine, President of the Egyptian Resuscitation Council, Tutor European Master in Disaster Medicine, European Resuscitation Council (ERC) Executive Committee Member, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) Board of Directors, Madison, WI, USA
- Sally Wassfi Hammad, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Fellow Lecturer of Emergency Medicine, ERC Director and Educator, Member of the ERC, Member of the American Heart Association (AHA), Member of the Egyptian Medical Society of Echocardiography (EMSE), Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
- Saad Ali Asiri, Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
- Selma Alqattan, Deputy CEO, Champion General and Rehabilitation Hospital, Founder of Lifeline UC, Kuwait
- Naeem Anwar Toosy, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Care, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
- Eveline Hitti, Professor of Clinical Specialty, Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
- Sarah S. Abdul-Nabi, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
- Yousef Mohammad Alsofayan, Sharifah Yousef Albounagh, Faris Almutairi, Ahmad Aloudah, Abdulrahman Almutairi, Majed Alsaihani, Abdulellah Almutairi, Fahad S. Alhajjaj and Jalal M. Alowais, Saudi Red Crescent Authority, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Nawfal Aljerian, Professor and Consultant, Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services, Medical Referrals Center, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Feras Husain Abuzeyad, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Farwaniya Hospital, Farwaniya, Kuwait
- Musa Al-Faifi, Emergency and Medical Toxicology, Armed Forces Hospital Southern Region, Saudi Arabia
- Intesar Salih AlKhedir and Manal Siyam, Sudan Natural History Museum, Toxic Organisms Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
- Muhammad E. M. O. Elamin, Consultant, Physician and Clinical Toxicologist, National Poisons Information Service (Birmingham Unit), Birmingham, UK
- Abdulaziz Abdulrahman AlRabiah, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Abdulla Alhmoudi, GME Office, Department of Emergency Medicine, Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Ayesha Almemari, Consultant, Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Abdulla Ahmed Abu Eid, Ammar Humaid Albanna and Fatema Almansouri, Consultant, Psychiatrist, "Halek le Hamek" - A Virtual Psychiatry Clinic, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Hanan Alhajri, Fellow in Cardiovascular Critical Care, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Lara S. AbduMuaileq, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Dubai Health, Dubai, UAE
- Maryam E. Alnuaimi, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Muez Mohamed Ahmed Siddig Hag Hamad, Consultant, Psychiatrist, Mediclinic Hospital - Airport Road, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Sarah Mohammed Bin Hariz, Umma-Kulthum Umar and Amani Mohamed Abdelwahab Elkhalifa, Specialist, Emergency Medicine, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Sara Nooruddin Kazim, Dubai Academic Health Corporation, Dubai, UAE
- Rawan Eskandarani, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Nisreen Hamza Maghraby, Assistant Professor, Consultant, EM/Trauma and Disaster Management, Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University (IAU), Dammam, Saudi Arabia
- Abdulaziz S. AlGarni, Amal A. Yousif and Osama Y. Kentab, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Afnan Ahmad AlMass, Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Department of Emergency Medicine, Al-Diriyah Hospital, Riyadh Third Health Cluster, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Mohammed Faisal Abosoudah, Consultant, Palliative Care and Pain Medicine, Department of Palliative Care, Cancer Care Center, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
- Hend Mahmood Sayaly, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Head of the Scientific Council of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Department, Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq
- Abdussalam Alshehri, Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Shammah Al Memari, Consultant, Family Medicine, NMC Health, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Loui Alsulimani and Taha Masri, Disaster Medicine Section, Department of Emergency Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Mohammed Alabdrab Alnabi, Director of Postgraduate Training Program in Critical Care Medicine in the Eastern Health Cluster, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia
- Ziad Kh Al-Enizi, College of Law, Al Ain University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
