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Intensive Care Unit

Department: Surgical Nursing
Clinic: Intensive Care Unit
Director: Professor George Filntisis
Secretariat/Communication responsible: Dimitra Karabatsou

Clinic Contact Details

  • Telephone: +302103501191, +302103501413
    Fax: +302103501949

Room / Building

  • Agioi Anargiroi General & Cancer Hospital of Kifisia

General Description

A 12 bed multidisciplinary critical care unit.

Staff

Taught Clinical Courses (undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum)

Undergraduate Program

  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Oxygen Therapy
  • First Aid
  • Nursing rehabilitation of patient with chronic diseases

Postgraduate Program

  • Critical Care medicine
  • Circadian rhythms in health and disease
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Critical Care and Major Trauma

Infrastructure

Intensive Care Unit, 12 beds, at Agioi Anargiroi General & Cancer Hospital of Kifisia

Research Activities

  • Investigation of the value of immunological monitoring of septic ICU patients study inflammatory and oxidative state of septic patients and their potential association with disease severity and outcome.
  • Induction of local anti-inflammatory IL-10 release at the onset of multiple trauma injury.
  • EVADE, Effort to Prevent Nosocomial Pneumonia caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Mechanically Ventilated Subjects.
  • EUROBACT II. Epidemiology and determinants of outcomes of Hospital Acquired Blood Stream Infections in the Intensive Care.
  • The VIP-2 study: Development and validation of a mortality risk score for very old intensive care patients (≥80 years)

Publications

  • D Hatzilia, M Malliarou, A Korompeli, K Tsoumakas, G Fildissis. Smoking cessation process and quality of life. J NURS EDUC PRACT 2017; 7(9): DOI:10.5430/jnep.v7n9p1
  • R Eltheni, K Giakoumidakis, H Brokalaki, NV. Fotos, C Charitos, I Samiotis, G Fildissis. The effect of a nurse led patient education program for oral anticoagulant therapy on the incidence of thromboembolic and hemorrhagic episodes after surgical heart valve replacement. Int J Surg Med 2017; 3(1):14-20
  • P Stergiannis, G Intas, G Toulia, I Tsolakoglou, P Kostagiolas, E Christodoulou, E Chalari, V  Kiriakopoulos, G Filntisis. Clinical Use of Smartphones Among Medical and Nursing Staff in Greece: A Survey. CIN COMPUT INFORM NU 2017; 35(9):483–488, doi: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000000347
  • A Korompeli, O Muurlink, N Kavrochorianou, Th Katsoulas, G Fildissis, G Baltopoulos. Circadian disruption of ICU patients: A review of pathways, expression, and interventions. J CRIT CARE 2017; 38:269-277.doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.12.006
  • E Chalari, G Intas, S Zyga, G Fildissis, M Tolia, C Toutziaris, N Tsoukalas, G Kyrgias, Ge Panoutsopoulos. Perioperative inadvertent hypothermia among urology patients who underwent transurethral resection with either TURis or transurethral resection of the prostate method. UROL INT 2018, https://doi.org/10.1177/0391560318758937

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