Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:19+01:0017 May, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos. Next Thursday May 19th, we will fly to Bilbao to participate in the National Conference of the Spanish Society of Radiology, SERAM 2016. And we will talk in a very atractive session presented by Drs. Begoña García and Isabel González: Beyond Technology.This is the title of our tak: Diagnosing and treating patients are not [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:20+01:0014 May, 2016|
“Tell me,” my patient’s daughter asked at the other end of the phone line. “Is she stable?” I wasn’t sure how to answer.My patient hadn’t been home in nearly three months. It had all started to come apart in the fall. Until then, she’d been a healthy 90-year-old who lived alone and cooked all her own meals, played tennis in [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:20+01:0013 May, 2016|
99 days I could see how they took them. I saw them they could not see me, they were covered with a sheet. I saw them and I was silent. I accompanied in silence the funeral procession, coffins hidden in hospital beds. Hour of death... One day I will hear that phrase and I would know that I would be [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:20+01:0012 May, 2016|
A doctor writing about nurses, thanks to the invitation of two good friends that I could not even meet in person. But it is a matter of time. There are things that do not need to be said, but many times it is necessary to shout aloud what the obvious is, just in case. And this is one of those [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:24+01:0010 May, 2016|
Nowadays, that person who haven´t heard about Humanizing Care, is because he/she lives on another planet. I am a nurse. I work at the Hospital General Universitario de Albacete, exactly in Anesthesia and Resuscitation Unit (REA), and as in every ICU, we suffer stress, burn-out and work overload. Stopping and thinking on what we can improve is important, and we [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:24+01:007 May, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.One year from the Declaration of Torrejón for the humanization of Intensive Care, signed to date by 460 people from all parts of the world. On May 6th 2015, we also created the hashtag #humaniza and we continue making noise to raise awareness about how important the "H" is, and a matter of all.Made these [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:24+01:005 May, 2016|
For fifteen days a pneumonia leads her to be admitted at ICU.It´s time of First Communions for her daughter.Auxi. Forty two years olf. Two weeks she can´t see her children. The youngest, a five-year-old boy and her girl with everything prepared. "You are improving, but at the moment you have to remain with us". To Auxi the world comes above. [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:25+01:004 May, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.Next May 6th we are flying to Ibiza, to the First Conference “Humanizing Health Care" organized by the Safety Patient Unit of Eivissa and Formentera. As you can see, it is a multidisciplinary conference where we will share space with Raquel Franco of Facilitación Sanitaria and Carlos Hernández, author of the book "An intruder in [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:25+01:003 May, 2016|
It is not uncommon to observe that, for some professionals involved in the care of the critically ill patient, sedation remains a low priority over other aspects of treatment such as respiratory, cardiac or renal function. Concepts as early resuscitation in sepsis or the strategy of lung protection in patients with respiratory distress syndrome are assumed, but with analgesia or [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:26+01:0028 April, 2016|
In the coming II National Conference on Humanizing Intensive Care in Barcelona, we will have the opportunity to see first hand the vision of professionals who have spent years working on units that long ago took the step of opening its doors. Without a doubt, it will be an injection of energy and a source of inspiration for those who [...]
