Publications by authors named "Eleni Tamvaki"
Article Synopsis
- A literature review was conducted to identify biomarkers that can objectively evaluate pain in critically ill children, focusing on studies involving saliva, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and gingival crevicular fluid.
- Most studies utilized enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and found associations between various cytokines, peptides, and hormones with pain, stress, and inflammation.
- The review concluded that several easily obtainable biomarkers are linked to pain in children, recommending further observational studies to assess their effectiveness for pain assessment in a clinical context.
Background Severe and prolonged asphyxia can result in either intrauterine fetal death and stillbirth or multiorgan failure in surviving neonates. Establishing effective ventilation is the primary aim of resuscitation in newborns with asphyxia. The objective of this study was to compare the outcome of resuscitation by applying an endotracheal tube (ETT) with less, an ETT with moderate, and an ETT with high leakage during mechanical ventilation in swine neonates after prolonged perinatal asphyxia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A variety of valid pediatric pain assessment tools are used in clinical practice globally; however, none have been validated for use in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in Greece. Furthermore, the association between pain behavioral responses and clinical status is unclear.
Aims: To assess the reliability and validity of the Greek version of FLACC, Comfort B, and BPS pain scales in critically ill children and to explore their association with clinical severity (Denver MOF, PMODS) and levels of sedation and analgesia.