Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:07+01:0020 August, 2014|
"The day I discovered that I could make it better I was working. Specifically, I was cleaning the skin of a man who was in a coma, and I did it as usual, trying to doing with the same attention and detail that dressmakers do when preparing a suit of rhinestones. At that time, some colleagues came into the room [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:07+01:0019 August, 2014|
Most health professionals believe that more humanistic treatment of patients and families is an essential part of our profession and helps us to improve the quality of care. However, even though many of us try to acquire those humanistic values and improve on them, many difficulties still exist when we try to maintain them throughout our professional lives. We may [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:07+01:0016 August, 2014|
On the outskirts of Santiago de Chile (the city where I live), occurs the same thing that in all countries. There are dangerous areas mainly by the socio-cultural context in which they are found. These areas tend to have high rates of crime and the profile of the patients of critical services tends to be young wounded by bullet, victim of "settling of accounts"... a [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:07+01:0015 August, 2014|
Because giving information is at least as important than fixing the problem. Provide information tailored to the patient and family is an obligation inherent to the profession, doctors and nurses. Not to use more complex words we will demonstrate greater professionalism, quite the opposite. Remember that we are dealing with people, not with bodies.INFORMATION = PEACE OF MIND. Besos [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:08+01:0014 August, 2014|
Hello everybody!! Today doble post to share the ESICM´s Video Ensuring Quality of dying in ICU, that IC-HU Proyect has edited and subtitled in Spanish. One more time, thanks to Jose Sesmero by editing and Daniel Muñiz in the traslate. Dr. J. Randall Curtis (University of Washington Hospital, Seattle) talks about many very interesting ítems for us and give some practical [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:08+01:0014 August, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Yesterday I could meet for a coffee with Dr. Salvador Casado. Although he is extremely famous, I am sure that many of you don´t know who he is. He is a Primary Care Physician at the Center of Health of Collado Villalba and a reference due to his blog and Social Media.A couple of months ago, we work together with [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:08+01:0013 August, 2014|
"And I open the eyes. I am a femoral. A jugular. A too-small tube filled with secretions. I am the blue eyes. Foreign pupils. I am who occasionally blows the monitor alarm. I am the low saturation and sedation window flashing. I am the hematoma under the eyelids. I am the artery that you can not take. The gases flowing always [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:09+01:0012 August, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. After more than 8 months, after suffering an infarction and return to tell the story, José wanted to continue telling us his experience during the subsequent follow-up. As many of you are fans of José, I asked him to write a post a few days ago, because he is at last to be discharged. Here [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:11+01:009 August, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: After the post Relationship between ICU design and patient mortality that I wrote a couple of days ago, Dr. José Manuel Rodríguez Roldán from ICU of Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa from Leganés (one of my mentors when I did the Intensive Care Residency) sent me an email to share something with everybody. Several years ago, he reviewed the Guidelines of Architectural [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:12+01:008 August, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear rogue! For those who remain,for those who travel,for those who are on the beach, for those who are on night shif today, for those who are in a traffic-jam,for those who drink Tinto de verano, beer or Gin Tonic,for patients,for families,for healthcare workers... Wherever you will stay and who you are, IC-HU Project (thanks to Alberto, [...]
