When medicine meets borders: a story of hope, and heartbreak, in the skies

Amr S Omar^{1

2

3}, Ashraf Abdulla Molokhia^{4

5

6}, Ibrahim Fawzy Hassan^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery/ICU Section, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar. a_s_omar@yahoo.com.
² Department of Critical Care Medicine, Beni Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt. a_s_omar@yahoo.com.
³ Weill Cornell Medical College, AL-Rayyan, Qatar. a_s_omar@yahoo.com.
⁴ Weill Cornell Medical College, AL-Rayyan, Qatar.
⁵ Medical Intensive Care, Hamad Medial Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
⁶ Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, London, UK.

Editorial

Amr S Omar et al. Intensive Care Med. 2025 Sep.

. 2025 Sep;51(9):1727-1728.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-025-08023-8. Epub 2025 Jul 10.

Amr S Omar^{1

2

3}, Ashraf Abdulla Molokhia^{4

5

6}, Ibrahim Fawzy Hassan^{4

5}

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery/ICU Section, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar. a_s_omar@yahoo.com.
² Department of Critical Care Medicine, Beni Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt. a_s_omar@yahoo.com.
³ Weill Cornell Medical College, AL-Rayyan, Qatar. a_s_omar@yahoo.com.
⁴ Weill Cornell Medical College, AL-Rayyan, Qatar.
⁵ Medical Intensive Care, Hamad Medial Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
⁶ Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, London, UK.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Conflicts of interest: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.

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