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The incidence of in-hospital cardiac arrest (CA) in Europe is 1.5-2.8 CAs per 1000 hospital admissions with differences among hospitals and countries. Causes of CA are traditionally classified as cardiac and non-cardiac. However, clinical etiological diagnosis is often different compared to postmortem examination findings. The aim of the present study was to record and investigate reasons, location and timing of in-hospital CAs. Continue reading →

Category: 2025, 2025a, Observational Articles, Current issue
Keywords: Cardiac arrest, causes of cardiac arrest, in-hospital cardiac arrest, location of in-hospital cardiac arrest
Authors (a/b order): Aggou M., Deligianni M., Fyntanidou B., Grosomanidis V., Karvounis H., Moirasgenti M., Toufas K., Vasilakos D.

The work of breathing during mechanical ventilation in a porcine model of abdominal hypertension: The impact of sepsis

The work of breathing (WOB) is the amount of energy, which is consumed by the respiratory muscles, in order to perform one complete respiratory cycle. In several medical conditions, WOB might rise to a critical level which could necessitate initiation of mechanical ventilation (MV) or complicate weaning of the patient from MV. Continue reading →

Category: 2023, 2023a, Experimental Article
Keywords: abdominal compartment syndrome, abdominal hypertension, Work of Breathing
Authors (a/b order): Amaniti A., Deligianni M., Fyntanidou B., Gkarmiri S., Grosomanidis V., Kotzampassi K., Kyparissa M., Palaska E.

Hypertonic Saline Resuscitation in acute intraoperative hemorrhage:Case Series presentation

Four patients (♂/♀: 1/3), aged 51, 52, 50 and 58 years old, who underwent general surgery procedures, suffered acute major blood loss intraoperatively. For the management of acute hemorrhage, 4ml/kg NaCl 7.5% were administered in each patient at the fastest possible rate through the existing intravenous line. Both standard monitoring and Oesophageal Doppler Monitoring (ODM) were applied and heart rate (HR), mean arterial pressure (BPmean), stroke volume (SV), peak velocity (PV), mean acceleration (MA) and corrected flow time (FTc) were recorded at six different phases, before blood loss (Phase 1), before and after completion of NaCl 7.5% administration (Phases 2 & 3), 10min and 20min after NaCl 7.5% administration (Phases 4 and 5) and at the end of the surgical procedure (Phase 6). Continue reading →

Category: 2022, 2022b, Case Reports
Keywords: acute blood loss, Hypertonic saline solutions, Oesophageal Doppler Monitoring
Authors (a/b order): Deligianni M., Fortounis K., Fyntanidou B., Gkarmiri S., Grosomanidis V., Kotzampassi K., Kyparissa M., Ourailoglou V.

Intraoperative Hypoxemia in Thoracic Surgery: Impact on early outcome

Anesthesia for thoracic surgery presents specific challenges since anesthesiologists have to manage patients with several comorbidities, apply One Lung Ventilation (OLV) to facilitate surgery and at the same time they should try to maintain adequate safe oxygen levels. Hypoxemia is a common consequence of OLV. The aim of the present retrospective study was to investigate the impact of intraoperative hypoxia on the early outcome of patients. Continue reading →