32 results match your criteria: "and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens[Affiliation]"
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Discharge From Intensive Care Units in Greater Athens Area.
J Trauma Nurs
January 2017
Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences (Dr Asimakopoulou), School of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece; and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Dr Madianos), Athens, Greece.
Survivors of critical illnesses often exhibit high psychiatric morbidity. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the comorbidity between PTSD and major depression, among patients who have been treated in a general (medical-surgical) intensive care unit (ICU group) compared with patients who have been treated in a non-ICU department, medical or surgical (non-ICU group). The study was conducted in 5 general hospitals in the greater Athens, Greece area.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe impact of laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication on the long-term quality of life in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Gastroenterol Nurs
December 2016
Dimitrios P. Korkolis, PhD, MD, is Consultant Surgeon, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, "Saint Savvas" Hospital, Athens, Greece. Maria Kapritsou, MSc, BSN, RN, is Nurse, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, "Saint Savvas" Hospital, Athens, Greece, and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Evangelos A. Konstantinou, PhD, RN, is Assistant Professor of Nursing Anesthesiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Margaret Giannakopoulou, PhD, RN, is Assistant Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Maria S. Chrysi, MSc, RN, is Nurse, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, "Saint Savvas" Hospital, Athens, Greece. Maria Tsakiridou, RN, is Head Chief Nurse of Surgical Clinic, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, "Saint Savvas" Hospital, Athens, Greece. Andriana Kouloura, MD, is Resident in Surgery, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, "Saint Savvas" Hospital, Athens, Greece. Matthaios Flamourakis, MD, is Resident in Surgery, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, "Saint Savvas" Hospital, Athens, Greece. Mariantonietta Maricosu, MD, is Resident in Surgery, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, "Saint Savvas" Hospital, Athens, Greece. Emmanuil Gontikakis, PhD, MD, is Director of Surgical Clinic, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, "Saint Savvas" Hospital, Athens, Greece. George Plataniotis, MD, is Director of Surgical Clinic, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, "Saint Savvas" Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication is now the most common surgical procedure for treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), offering promising long-term outcomes. Outcomes for 46 patients with GERD who underwent Nissen fundoplication during the last 5 years (November 2007-June 2012) were prospectively studied using a structured questionnaire that evaluated clinical symptom scores for heartburn, dysphagia, and satisfaction with clinical outcomes. Postoperative care of the patients including analgesia, median hospital stay, overall cost, and complications was also studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe anatomical variability of the emissary condylar veins, its identification and clinical significance.
J Neurosci Rural Pract
January 2015
Departments of Anatomy, Medical Schools of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniky and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Resuscitation in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: A Research Model.
Shock
March 2015
*National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, MSc "Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation"; †Hellenic Society of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; ‡Experimental-Research Center "ELPEN" Pharmaceutical Co.; and §National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Aretaion Hospital, Department of Biopathology, Athens, Greece.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock is challenging and usually unsuccessful. The aim of the present study is to describe our swine model of cardiac arrest and resuscitation in severe sepsis and septic shock. In this prospective randomized animal study, 10 healthy female Landrace-Large White pigs with an average weight of 20 ± 1 kg (aged 19 - 21 weeks) were the study subjects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth-related quality of life and rehabilitation cost following intensive care unit stay in multiple trauma patients.
J Trauma Nurs
September 2015
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Intensive Care Unit, GONK Agioi Anargyroi Hospital, School of Nursing, Kalyftaki, N. Kifisia, Greece (Drs Stergiannis, Katsoulas, Fildissis, Kosta, Zidianakis, and Baltopoulos); National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Nursing, Papadiamantopoulou, Goudi, Athens, Greece (Dr Intas); and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Nursing, Center for Health Services Management and Evaluation, Papadiamantopoulou, Goudi, Athens, Greece (Dr Galanis).
Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess changes in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in multiple trauma patients due to motor vehicle crashes during a follow-up period of 2 years after discharge from an intensive care unit (ICU) and the effect of income and financial cost of rehabilitation in HRQOL.
Methods: The study was a prospective observational study of multiple trauma patients from January 2009 to January 2011 who were hospitalized in a general, medical, and surgical ICU of a district hospital in Athens, Greece. Eighty-five patients with multiple traumas due to motor vehicle crashes and with an ICU stay of more than 24 hours were included in the study.
Which is better: a miniaturized percutaneous ventricular assist device or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for patients with cardiogenic shock?
ASAIO J
June 2014
From the *Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH; †Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX; and ‡National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
The purpose of this study is to compare outcomes associated with the use of Impella and TandemHeart short-term support devices with venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy for postinfarction- or decompensated cardiomyopathy-related cardiogenic shock. Between January 2006 and September 2011, 79 patients were supported with either an Impella axial flow pump (n = 7) or a TandemHeart centrifugal pump (n = 11), or with ECMO (n = 61) therapy for cardiogenic shock in a single institution. Pertinent variables and postprocedural events were analyzed in this cohort of patients using a prospectively maintained clinical database.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfluence of intranasal sterile isotonic sea water applications on xylometazoline administration: an experimental study in pigs.
Auris Nasus Larynx
February 2010
Department of Otolaryngology, Hellenic Red Cross Hospital, and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1st Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate how isotonic sea water solution (Physiomer) affects the structure of porcine nasal mucosa when it is applied simultaneously with vasoconstrictors (xylometazoline) for a prolonged period of time.
Methods: Twenty pigs of the PMR-Landraze breed formed the study group. A solution of xylometazoline 0, 1% (Otrivin spray, Novartis) was sprayed every 8h in both nasal cavities of the pigs, with two applications into each nostril for 28 days.