Our Team — Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Tahir Shahzad, MD

Qatar Board of Emergency Medicine, Arab Board of Emergency Medicine, FRCEM

Emergency Medicine Resident - Mercy St. Vincent, Toledo, United States

Member of RCEM, PSEM, ACEP, and EMRA

Patron & Founder

This organization has been working dedicatedly since 2020 in Pakistan to improve survival outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac Arrest. The organization is a perfect blend of academic opportunities for our valued volunteers and members and a platform for the public to establish basic and life-saving skills. The organization is growing every year and improving; However, it needs further consolidation in its structure and workflow and more public interaction. We aim to educate the masses to make our society and country safer and happier.

I urge you all to come forward and join hands in this noble cause and be a source of saving the precious lives of your loved ones. I am proud of my team, who work tirelessly and selflessly to make this organization grow bigger than expected and to achieve what we imagine.

Javerya Hassan

CEO,OHCA-Pakistan

Sara Andrabi, MD

Assistant Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Department of Emergency Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine

Assistant Medical Director, Ben Taub Hospital Emergency Center
Harris Health System

Senior Mentor

Dr Kamran Khan

Consultant Emergency Medicine

Hamad Medical Corporation

Program Director for Resuscitation & Critical Care Fellowship

Fellowship Core Faculty member of POCUS

Doha, Qatar

Senior Mentor

Muhammad Faraz Anwaar, MD

Cardiovascular Disease Fellow

Department of Cardiology

Houston Methodist

Houston, U.S.

Mentor

Advisory Panel

The advisory panel is the superior administrative body and a think tank of the organization.

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Maaz Mansoor

Director

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) describes the loss of mechanical cardiac function and the absence of systemic circulation. Time is crucial, with a lack of perfusion leading to continual cell death; with each second that passes the possibility of a good outcome decreases. The unpredictable and time-sensitive nature of OHCA makes it a unique medical emergency

Globally, it is estimated that on average, less than 10% of all patients with OHCA will survive. The time it takes to initiate CPR has the greatest impact on survival. It, therefore, falls to the community to start CPR and maintain viability while emergency services arrive. Successful outcomes rely on the coordination of the “chain of survival”—a complex relationship between public bystanders, emergency services, and hospital providers.

Through our organization, we plan on training the community and increase the number of public bystanders who know how to deal with the out of hospital cardiac arrest.

We plan on doing it by building a task force. This will comprise our team of medical students and I am really hopeful that we can bring about a significant impact in this area.