Lakoumenta-Leventaki Stavroula Anesthesiologist

Doctoral thesis

• Ketamine anaesthesia and the metabolic response to surgery, Medical School University of Athens, 1988

Fellowship in Societies, Membership in Journal Editorial Committees

• Editor in chief Acta Anesthesiologica Hellenica, 2010-2016

• Presidant Organizing Committee 20^th Panhellenic Congress of Anaesthesiology, 2013

• Member and Chair of Hospital Ethics Committee

• CEEA (Continuing Education in Anaesthesia) Course Director 1995-2016

• CEEA Committee Member 2010-2014

• Nomination Committee of the European Society of Anaesthesiology 2014-2017

• Reviewer Hippokratia Journal

• Grader European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging

• Examiner European Diploma in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Work Experience

• Lecturer, Royal Postgraduate Medical School 1985

• Senior Registrar in Anaesthetics, Hammersmith Hospital 1985-1988

• Consultant Anaesthetist Evangelismos General Hospital, 1988-1995

• Consultant Anaesthetist Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre, 1995 -1999

• Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Patras,1999-2002

• Chair of Anaesthesia Department of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre, 2002-2017

Clinical & Research Interest

• Metabolic and Endocrine response to anaesthesia and trauma

• Interleukins

• Malignant Hyperthermia

• Myocardial conduction

• Anaesthesia for organ transplantation

• Novel anaesthetics

• Cardiac Anaesthesia

• Transfusion medecine

Honors & Awards

Research Committee of Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte’s Special Health Authority for the study of hypothalamic peptides and stress,1985

Recent Publications

• Transfusion practice for coronary artery  bypass surgery in Greece
  S. Lacoumenta, M.Vassili, G. Hatzidimitriou, T. Asteri, P. Stratigi, S. Kanellas and G. Palatianos

  Vox Sanguinis 2005 89:26(abstract)

• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: First Greek Experience
  Spargias et al

  Hellenic Journal of Cardiology 2008 49:397-407

• Thiopental in current anaesthetic practice(review)
  Koussi Th Matsouka and S. Lacoumenta
  Acta Anaesthesiologica Hellenica 2009 42:151-163

• Paving the way to the future (editorial)
  S. Lacoumenta
  Acta Anaesthesiologica Hellenica 2010 43:17-18

• A crisis inspired approach
  S. Lacoumenta
  Acta Anaesthesiologica Hellenica 2012 45:74-75

• An old debate a new problem
  Paolineli and S. Lacoumenta
  Acta Anaesthesiologica Hellenica 2014 46:10-12

• Anesthetic management of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation Balanica M, Smyrli A, Spargias K, Stavridis G, Karavolias G,   Khoury M, Voudris V, Lacoumenta S
  J  Cardiothorac Vasc  Anesth (2014), 2:285-289

• Perioperative use of iloprost in cardiac surgery patients diagnosed with   heparin-  induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) reactive antibodies or with true   HIT (HIT reactive antibodies plus thombocytopenia): An eleven year  experience    Palatianos G, Michalis A, Alivizatos P, Lacoumenta S et al
  Am J Hematol 2015 90:608-617