Periandros Karamanis ANESTHESIOLOGIST

• Hellenic Society of Anaesthesiology
• European Society of Anaesthesiology

• Anesthesiology Specialty, Attikon General Hospital
• Anesthesia for urinary oncology robotic surgery
• Cardiac surgery anesthesia
• Vascular surgery anesthesia
• Anesthesia for major intra-abdominal procedures
• Anesthesia for breast surgery and major plastic surgery repair following mastectomy
• Anesthesia for major orthopedic procedures
• One-day surgery anesthesia
• Neurosurgery anesthesia
• Sedation for procedures performed outside the operating room (gastroenterology, MRI, cardiac catheterization, angiography)

Clinical Interest:

• Regional anesthesia techniques and postoperative analgesia
• Perioperative management of gravely ill patients
• Difficult airways

Research Interest:

• Patient satisfaction related to perioperative anesthesiology care
• Anesthesia techniques in vascular surgery
• Anticoagulant treatment and regional anesthesia techniques

• “Music’s Use for Anesthesia and Analgesia”. J Altern Complement Med. 2012 Sep 18. [Epub ahead of print]
• “Greek surgical patients’ satisfaction related to perioperative anesthetic services in an academic institute”. Patient Prefer Adherence. 2012; 6: 569-78. Epub 2012 Aug 13.
• “Low-dose (1 microg/kg) clonidine premedication and hypotension after carotid artery surgery”. Vasc Endovascular Surg. 2011 Oct; 45(7): 614-8.
• “Epidural hematoma after epidural catheter removal under multiple anticoagulant therapy: report of two cases”. Arch Med Sci. 2010 Apr 30; 6(2): 281-2
• “Emergency transport of alcohol intoxication cases by ambulance in Athens, Greece. Transport speed and its temporal variability”. National Centre for Emergency Care, Athens, Greece, Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. September 2006, Vol. 30, No. 9, Blackwell Publishing
• Member of the translation team for the book Miller’s Anesthesia, 7th Edition
• 12th Thematic Congress: “Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine: Monitoring during Anesthesia”. P.C. Paschalidis Publishing House, pp. 1758-1768, May 2009
• 12th Thematic Congress: “Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine: Monitoring in the Post-anesthesia Care Unit”, P.C. Paschalidis Publishing House, pp. 1788-1796, May 2009