UNIVERSITY PEDIATRIC CLINIC — UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION
PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
Director: George Briassoulis, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatric Intensive Care
School of Health Sciences, University of Crete
Selected publications related to septic shock or immunonutrition or inflammatory process
Preliminary abstracts of our projects have been published and are prepared for publication: Examples are:
1) Danny Castro, George Briasoulis, Ivie Esangbedo, Jessy Palamattam, Leticia Castillo. Agmatine deficiency and opioid tolerance in criticaly ill children. American Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress, Florida, Jan 2010. Crit Care Med 37-Supplement (12): A1-A542, December 2009 IF 6.396
2) Danny Castro, George Briassoulis, Ivie Esangbedo, Jessy Palamattam, Leticia Castillo.Agmatine deficiency and opioid tolerance in criticaly ill children. American Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress, Florida, Jan 2010. Crit Care Med 37-Supplement (12): A1-A542, December 2009 IF 6.396
3) M.F.Keil, G. Briasoulis, M.Nesterova, N.Gokarn, A.Batistatos, T.J. Wu, C.A. Stratakis. Brain region-specific increased PKA activity is associated with alterations in behavioral responses to stress in Prkar1a–defective mice. Clinical Genetics and Dysmorphology, The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), 60th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 2-6, 2010
4)
MF Keil, N Gokarn, G Briassoulis, M Nesterova, TJ Wu, CA
Stratakis. An Anxiety-Like Phenotype Is Present in Prkar1a Heterozygote
Knock-Out Mice.. The enedocrine society’s 92 annyal meeting, San Diego, USA,
June 19-22, 2010
Selected publications related to septic shock or immunonutrition or inflammatory process
Briassoulis G, Venkataraman S, Thompson A.
Cytokines and metabolic patterns in pediatric patients with critical illness.
Clin Dev Immunol. 2010; 2010: 354047. Epub 2010 May 16. PMID: 20490277
Approval committee (G. Briassoulis) Pediatric Special Article: Clinical practice parameters for hemodynamic support of pediatric and neonatal septic shock: 2007 update from the American College of Critical Care Medicine* (Crit Care Med 2009; 37:666–688)
Briassoulis G, Briassoulis P, Michaeloudi E, Fitrolaki DM, Spanaki AM, Briassouli E. The effects of endotracheal suctioning on the accuracy of oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production measurements and pulmonary mechanics calculated by a compact metabolic monitor.. Anesth Analg. 2009 Sep;109(3):873-9. PubMed PMID: 19690260.
Ilia S, Spanaki AM, Geromarkaki E, Filippou O, Briassouli E, Fitrolaki DM, Vasilaki E, Briassoulis G. Contribution to mortality and resource usage of nosocomial and community infections in an intensive care setting in Greece. Archives Inter J Med 2009; 2(4):303-308.
Meyer, R., Briassouli, E., Briassoulis, G., Habibi, P. Evaluation of the M-COVX metabolic monitor in mechanically ventilated adult patients (2008) e-SPEN, 3 (5), pp. e232-e239. Cited 2 times.
Briassoulis G, Papassotiriou I, Mavrikiou M, Lazaropoulou C, Margeli A. Longitudinal course and clinical significance of TGF-beta1, sL- and sE-Selectins and sICAM-1 levels during severe acute stress in children. Clin Biochem. 2007 Mar;40(5-6):299-304. Epub 2007 Jan 5. PubMed PMID: 17291476.
Briassoulis G, Filippou O, Kanariou M, Papassotiriou I, Hatzis T. Temporal nutritional and inflammatory changes in children with severe head injury fed a regular or an immune-enhancing diet: A randomized, controlled trial. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2006 Jan;7(1):56-62. PubMed PMID: 16395076.
Briassoulis G, Filippou O, Hatzi E, Papassotiriou I, Hatzis T. Early enteral administration of immunonutrition in critically ill children: results of a blinded randomized controlled clinical trial. Nutrition. 2005 Jul-Aug;21(7-8):799-807. PubMed PMID: 15975487.
Briassoulis G, Filippou O, Kanariou M, Hatzis T. Comparative effects of early randomized immune or non-immune-enhancing enteral nutrition on cytokine production in children with septic shock. Intensive Care Med. 2005 Jun;31(6):851-8. Epub 2005 Apr 16. PubMed PMID: 15834703.
Briassoulis, G., Patsoura, A., Paraschou, D., Zavras, N. Supplemental hydrocortisone in culture-negative catecholamine-dependent septic shock (2001) Clinical Intensive Care, 12 (5-6), pp. 245-248.