Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:44+01:0020 February, 2016|
He was 15 years old. Moped. Helmet isn't invited. For that, the inevitable; ICU admission by traumatic brain injury. Parents in separation process. Previous reproaches into family room. Separated visits by decision parts. The first 24 hours, our patient maintained marked drowsiness. The thud has been big and a strong parenchymal impact. After 48 h, their brain injuries haven't progressed [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:45+01:0018 February, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear amig@s:As you know and after the great success on 2015, the IC-HU Project and the Center of Humanization of Health are organizing in Barcelona the II National Conference on Humanizing Intensive Care. This year, the Conference will take place on May 26th and 27th at Espai Pujades 350 (thanks to the excellent efforts of the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:45+01:0017 February, 2016|
On February 4th was held in Catalonia the XI Expert Conference of the Catalan Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SOCMIC) on the topic of End of Life Care (EOLC). Several reflections for the audience:1. There is an increased interest to improve care, attitudes and skills by professionals caring for patients in these situations (Dr. Francisco Fernández put us in [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:45+01:0016 February, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. I have just come back from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Spain after the adventure lived with José Manuel Velasco. So, many feelings as stars in the sky, such admiration and much respect that they don´t fit in my heart. It isn´t a coincidence: today is the second birthday of this blog and [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:46+01:006 February, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. We are just flying to Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), so this space will remain on hold next week. But before, we'd like to share with you a few links that will be of your interest about the post intensive care syndrome (PICS). To focus, the information for patients and family members of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:46+01:005 February, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. José Manuel Gómez García began the week talking about burnout in ICU, and commented that, unfortunately, the data of incidence in Spain are unknown. We are talking today about an article by Carla Teixeira from the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency of the Hospital de Santo António do Centro Hospitalar do Porto [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:46+01:004 February, 2016|
In 1991, one of the many foreign residents living in the Costa del Sol (Malaga. Spain), Mrs Joan Hunt, with other British compatriots, contemplated the possibility of helping people who, looking for the kindness of our climate, decided to end their days surrounded by everything what they have longed and that because of a terminal illness, not culminate as they [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:46+01:003 February, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Recently I wrote a letter to the family of one of my patients, who unfortunately died despite trying everything. Life is curious and it seems that we are all connected in one way or another, because I had received something like the reply to that letter. Yesterday Eva´s husband came to see me. She [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:47+01:002 February, 2016|
Long time, "to be burned" at work could go from being a colloquial expression to become a major problem. Professional exhaustion indexes (or Burnout) in the Health collective are reaching frankly troubling levels, most likely for us who are dedicated to intensive care. We are more exposed to suffer the syndrome, or at least some of their symptoms and or [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:47+01:0030 January, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. You can not imagine what it means for me to write this post. The IC-HU Project is going to visit Bolivia, particularly in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, thanks to the Colegio Médico Departamental de Santa Cruz and its Scientific Committee, the Bolivian Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the Center of teaching and medical skills and thanks to our friends [...]
