Ahmed Elsonbaty is a consultant cardiac anesthesiologist at King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and assistant professor of anesthesiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.
Alongside his clinical practice, he builds free, clinician-designed decision-support tools used by anesthesiologists in roughly 150 countries. These include Anaesth-AI, a general anesthesia reference, and CCA-Pro, a cardiac and coagulation tool recently published in the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. His work focuses on closing the gap between clinical data and the next decision at the bedside, while keeping human judgment firmly at the center.
He writes about the experience of building clinical software as a practicing physician and shares updates on LinkedIn.
For most of my career I was an unlikely candidate to build software. I am a consultant cardiac anesthesiologist. My world was the operating room, the bypass machine, the bleeding patient, the next case.
What changed wasn’t ambition. It was a quiet realization: Life had become loud and fast, and I no longer had time to sit down, open a textbook, and read the way I once did. And I started …
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I built clinical decision-support tools at the bedside
