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Klaus T. Olkkola

Klaus T. Olkkola

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Medicine

D-Index
75
Citations
18265
World Ranking
19190
National Ranking
223

Overview

Klaus T. Olkkola is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and has contributed extensively to research in the field of medicine, with a strong focus on anesthesiology and pain medicine. Their work spans a range of subfields including surgery, pharmacology, epidemiology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. The topics explored in their research cover anesthesia and pain management, sepsis diagnosis and treatment, anesthesia and sedative agents, cardiac anesthesia and surgical outcomes, clinical practice guideline implementation, total knee arthroplasty outcomes, and pain management and opioid use.

Olkkola has published in multiple scientific journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
  • Anesthesia & Analgesia
  • Anesthesiology
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Their recent research papers include:

  • Effects of anaesthesia method and tourniquet use on recovery following total knee arthroplasty: a randomised controlled study, 2020, British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • S-ketamine in patient-controlled analgesia reduces opioid consumption in a dose-dependent manner after major lumbar fusion surgery: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Surviving sepsis campaign: International guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock in adults 2021 - endorsement by the Scandinavian society of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine, 2022, Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
  • Random forest machine learning method outperforms prehospital National Early Warning Score for predicting one-day mortality: A retrospective study, 2020, Resuscitation Plus
  • Ability of prehospital NEWS to predict 1-day and 7-day mortality is reduced in older adult patients, 2021, Emergency Medicine Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Olkkola include:

  • Marius Rehn
  • Michelle S. Chew
  • Morten Hylander Møller
  • Martin I. Sigurðsson
  • Tero Vahlberg

Best Publications

  • Midazolam and other benzodiazepines.

    K. T. Olkkola;J. Ahonen

  • Ketamine: A Review of Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in Anesthesia and Pain Therapy

    Marko A. Peltoniemi;Nora M. Hagelberg;Klaus T. Olkkola;Teijo I. Saari

  • Midazolam Should Be Avoided in Patients Receiving the Systemic Antimycotics Ketoconazole or Itraconazole

    K. T. Olkkola;J. T. Backman;P. J. Neuvonen

  • A potentially hazardous interaction between erythromycin and midazolam

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  • Oral triazolam is potentially hazardous to patients receiving systemic antimycotics ketoconazole or itraconazole

    Anu Varhe;Klaus T Olkkola;Pertti J Neuvonen

  • The pharmacokinetics and metabolism of oxycodone after intramuscular and oral administration to healthy subjects.

    R Poyhia;T Seppala;KT Olkkola;E Kalso

  • Rifampin drastically reduces plasma concentrations and effects of oral midazolam

    Janne T. Backman;Klaus T. Olkkola;Pertti J. Neuvonen

  • The area under the plasma concentration-time curve for oral midazolam is 400-fold larger during treatment with itraconazole than with rifampicin.

    J T Backman;K T Kivistö;K T Olkkola;P J Neuvonen

  • Comparison of alfentanil, fentanyl and sufentanil for total intravenous anaesthesia with propofol in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery†

    J. Ahonen;K.T. Olkkola;M. Hynynen;T. Seppälä

  • Effects of blocking CYP2D6 on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of oxycodone.

    Tarja Heiskanen;Klaus T. Olkkola;Eija Kalso

  • Deeper chest compression – More complications for cardiac arrest patients?

    Heidi Hellevuo;Marko Sainio;Riikka Nevalainen;Heini Huhtala

  • The Effect of the Systemic Antimycotics, Itraconazole and Fluconazole, on the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Intravenous and Oral Midazolam

    Klaus T. Olkkola;Jouni Ahonen;Pertti J. Neuvonen

  • Measurement of pain in children with self-reporting and behavioral assessment

    Eeva-Liisa Maunuksela;Klaus T Olkkola;Reijo Korpela

  • Bioavailability of dexmedetomidine after intranasal administration

    Timo Iirola;Sanna Vilo;Tuula Manner;Riku Aantaa

  • ORAL ACTIVATED-CHARCOAL IN THE TREATMENT OF INTOXICATIONS - ROLE OF SINGLE AND REPEATED DOSES

    Pj Neuvonen;Klaus Olkkola

  • Dose of midazolam should be reduced during diltiazem and verapamil treatments.

    JT Backman;KT Olkkola;K Aranko;JJ Himberg

  • Utstein style reporting of in-hospital paediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

    P. Suominen;K.T. Olkkola;V. Voipio;R. Korpela

  • Impact of age, submersion time and water temperature on outcome in near-drowning.

    P. Suominen;C. Baillie;R. Korpela;S. Rautanen

  • A large simple randomized trial of rocuronium versus succinylcholine in rapid-sequence induction of anaesthesia along with propofol.

    J. I. Andrews;N. Kumar;R. H. G. Van Den Brom;K. T. Olkkola

  • The pharmacokinetics of oxycodone in uremic patients undergoing renal transplantation.

    Maija Kirvela;Leena Lindgren;Timo Seppala;Klaus T. Olkkola

Frequent Co-Authors

Pertti J. Neuvonen
Pertti J. Neuvonen University of Helsinki
Janne T. Backman
Janne T. Backman University of Helsinki
Mika Scheinin
Mika Scheinin Turku University Hospital
Heini Huhtala
Heini Huhtala Tampere University
Harry Scheinin
Harry Scheinin Turku University Hospital
Eija Kalso
Eija Kalso University of Helsinki
Dick Tibboel
Dick Tibboel Erasmus University Rotterdam
Mikko Niemi
Mikko Niemi University of Helsinki
Marjatta Leirisalo-Repo
Marjatta Leirisalo-Repo University of Helsinki
Hugh Montgomery
Hugh Montgomery University College London

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