Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:31+01:006 April, 2016|
39 year old, and life puts ahead a tough test. After 28 days of desperate fight for life, coming back from hell: fear, distress, anxiety... There is no medication that can control his despair. Or maybe yes?. His wife comes into the box, takes his hand and stays with him, no need to talk about. After many hours without sleep, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:31+01:005 April, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Next Wednesday, April 6th, this project will attend its first Collaborative Laboratory for Patient´s Empowerment which will take place in Impact Hub Madrid. Patient empowerment is a change of attitude, technology and, also, the health system. Would it be possible to enable the patient to participate from inside the health care system, and even [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:31+01:002 April, 2016|
99 days As being in Wonderland, everyday objects are transformed into oracles of imposible geometries in the space of the ICU. What an air conditioning grille was, is suddenly shown as a hieroglyph which we have to guess whether we want to stay alive. Always, that fear of staying alive, to not fall into the wrong box and disappear, swallowed by quicksand in [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:32+01:001 April, 2016|
Extreme poverty, lack of work, and unrequited love, are probably the paths to the loss of dignity. But if those are the paths, a disease is the motorway that leads more quickly to that same destination. Illnes put us in the absolute defenselessness. Bows us, makes us dependents. We lose our strength and many times our decision making capacity. The [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:32+01:0031 March, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos.On May 2015 took place in Madrid the 1st Conference on values: Humanizing Health Care, in which this project had the chance to collaborate. "On the other side of the piyama" is a beautiful and passionate event with realized by last year students of the School of Nursing of Complutense University. During the meeting, they [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:32+01:0030 March, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.It´s really a pleasure for me introduce a book that for sure we will give much to talk about: Through the Valley of Shadows Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human Dr. Samuel Brown is the autor. He is Assistant Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:32+01:0029 March, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. A few weeks ago we wanted to ask your help in a worldwide survey about the ABCDEF bundle. The ABCDEF bundle has been proposed to reduce these conditions and improve patient outcomes. The aim of the present survey is to explore worldwide the knowledge about the ABCDEF bundle (the F letter indicating the Family involvement being [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:32+01:0024 March, 2016|
You open your eyes. Today your body doesn´t respond you as always. You arms weigh and your throat hurts. It´s difficult to keep your eyelids up. Noises are not as daily, or odors. Even your bed is strange. Nothing seems to mornings you are accustomed. Even those of hangover. You try again, and nothing. It seems that each arm weighs [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:33+01:0023 March, 2016|
Yes. An attack in the heart of everyone, which unites us in an identity in VALUES, which represents us as citizens of an essential UNION. An attack in our heart in Brussels. Contemplate with me this picture of an airport terminal. The dusty air where cries of pain and terror spread. On the floor debris, baggage, crystals. Source: El país [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:33+01:0022 March, 2016|
We do not realize, but space influences our perception of situations and our responses. In a nice space we feel better, we feel "good" and face better what happens to us. Honestly, I had not realized until now how little we care waiting rooms, perhaps because we consider them a secondary space, but that is a big mistake. To run [...]
