Ozan Can Barlas, MD

Ozan Can Barlas, MD is an Emergency Medicine physician working in the Emergency Service of Acibadem Kartal Hospital in İstanbul. With more than ten years in medicine, his clinical work centers on the assessment and initial management of urgent conditions and injuries. His areas of expertise include trauma, insect bites and stings, and environmental emergencies such as drowning, acute hypoxia and airway obstruction.

Dr. Barlas graduated from İstanbul University İstanbul Faculty of Medicine in 2016. He then completed his specialty training in Emergency Medicine at Medeniyet University Göztepe Training and Research Hospital, finishing in 2022. In 2026 he joined Acıbadem Healthcare Services, where he continues his practice in emergency care at the Kartal hospital.

Clinical focus

A significant part of Dr. Barlas’s work involves trauma, which covers injuries of varying severity that require timely evaluation and stabilization. In the emergency setting, the priority is to identify the injuries present, assess the patient’s overall condition and direct care according to the most pressing clinical needs. He also has particular interest in insect bites and stings, including bee stings and tick bites. These may range from local reactions requiring simple care to situations that need closer observation, and the emergency assessment aims to distinguish between them and to respond appropriately.

Dr. Barlas’s expertise further extends to environmental emergencies. This group includes drowning, acute hypoxia and airway obstruction, all of which can compromise breathing and oxygen supply and therefore call for rapid recognition and intervention. In such cases the emergency physician’s role is to secure the airway, support oxygenation and monitor the patient closely while the underlying cause is addressed. Across all of these areas, Dr. Barlas’s approach follows the principles of emergency medicine: a focused evaluation of urgent symptoms and injuries, followed by care matched to the patient’s immediate condition.

How Dr. Barlas works with international patients

Dr. Barlas consults in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for patients who speak other languages. For international patients, the Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior medical documentation, such as MRI, CT, X-ray or ultrasound reports, laboratory and pathology results, operative notes and discharge summaries, and arranges appointments and the hospital visit. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and current symptoms, a review of existing imaging and any previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the available options. Video consultation is available for international patients who wish to discuss their situation with Dr. Barlas before or instead of traveling to İstanbul, with the understanding that emergency conditions themselves require in-person care at the time they occur.