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| Panagiotis KiekkasSummaryAffiliation: University of Athens Country: Greece Publications
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Medication errors in critically ill adults: a review of direct observation evidencePanagiotis Kiekkas
Nursing Department, Highest Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece
Am J Crit Care 20:36-44. 2011..To systematically review clinical evidence gathered by direct observation of medication errors in adult patients in intensive care units...- Knowledge of pulse oximetry: comparison among intensive care, anesthesiology and emergency nursesPanagiotis Kiekkas
Nursing Department, Highest Technological Institute of Patras, Patras, Greece
J Clin Nurs 22:828-37. 2013..To evaluate pulse oximetry knowledge of nurses employed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Anesthesiology Department (AD) and Emergency Department (ED) and to compare knowledge among these departments/units... 
Knowledge is power: studying critical incidents in intensive carePanagiotis Kiekkas
Nursing Department, Highest Technological Educational Institute of Patras, 1 M, Alexandrou Str, Patras, 263 34, Greece
Crit Care 16:102. 2012..Promotion of non-blaming culture, analysis of critical incident reports and development of clinical recommendations are expected to minimize critical incidents in the future...- Psychological distress and delusional memories after critical care: a literature reviewP Kiekkas
Patras Specialized Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases, Department of Nursing, Highest Technological Education of Patras, Patras, Greece
Int Nurs Rev 57:288-96. 2010..These memories often have a strong vividness, long duration and high emotional impact... - Peak body temperature predicts mortality in critically ill patients without cerebral damagePanagiotis Kiekkas
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Patras University Hospital, Patras, Greece
Heart Lung 39:208-16. 2010..We investigated whether mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients without cerebral damage is associated with fever manifestation and characteristics... - Fever and agitation in elderly ICU patients: a descriptive studyPanagiotis Kiekkas
Patras Specialized Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases, Patras, Greece
Intensive Crit Care Nurs 26:169-74. 2010..To investigate the association between fever and agitation in elderly, critically ill patients... - Association between nursing workload and mortality of intensive care unit patientsPanagiotis Kiekkas
Anesthesiology Department, University Hospital of Patras, Greece
J Nurs Scholarsh 40:385-90. 2008..To investigate differences in mortality of intensive care unit (ICU) patients according to the ratio between total patient care demands and nurse staffing... - Physical antipyresis in critically ill adultsBy Panagiotis Kiekkas
University Hospital of Patras in Patras, Greece
Am J Nurs 108:40-9; quiz 50. 2008..In addition, the authors give an overview of the causes and effects of temperature elevation, focusing mostly on fever.A literature review examines external cooling methods for use in the ICU. The findings raise some doubts... 
Nursing workload associated with fever in the general intensive care unitPanagiotis Kiekkas
Department of Anesthesiology, Patras University Hospital, Patras, Greece
Am J Crit Care 17:522-31. 2008..Fever in a patient in the intensive care unit necessitates several nursing tasks. Moreover, factors associated with increased patient care needs may be associated with fever...- Patient severity as an indicator of nursing workload in the intensive care unitPanagiotis Kiekkas
Anesthesiology Department, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece
Nurs Crit Care 12:34-41. 2007..Clinical severity of the ICU patients measured by APACHE II is an important early indicator of daily nursing workload, especially of care demands associated with respiration, diagnostic methods and treatments... - Level and correlates of burnout among orthopaedic nurses in GreecePanagiotis Kiekkas
Patras Specialized Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases, Patras, Greece
Orthop Nurs 29:203-9. 2010..To investigate the level and correlates of burnout among nurses employed in orthopaedic wards... - Optimized perioperative analgesia reduces chronic phantom limb pain intensity, prevalence, and frequency: a prospective, randomized, clinical trialMenelaos Karanikolas
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Patras University School of Medicine, Patras, Greece
Anesthesiology 114:1144-54. 2011..Severe preamputation pain is associated with phantom limb pain (PLP) development in limb amputees. We investigated whether optimized perioperative analgesia reduces PLP at 6-month follow-up... - Changes in nursing practice: associations with responses to and coping with errorsMary Karga
Patras University Hospital, Patras, Greece
J Clin Nurs 20:3246-55. 2011..To investigate emotional responses of nurses and perceived senior staff responses to errors, error-coping strategies used by nurses and how these are associated with constructive or defensive changes in nursing practice... - Patient and/or family controlled palliative sedation with midazolam for intractable symptom control: a case seriesDiamanto Aretha
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Patras University Hospital, Patras, Greece
Cases J 2:136. 2009..Family satisfaction was mainly good and median sedation was in the range 2 - 3. CONCLUSION: Patient/Family-Controlled Sedation with midazolam was effective in providing comfort, by allowing titration of sedation to each patient's needs... - Use of technological equipment in critical care units: nurses' perceptions in GreecePanagiotis Kiekkas
Department of Anesthesiology, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece
J Clin Nurs 15:178-87. 2006....