Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:51+01:0014 January, 2016|
It was at Christmas time, a few years ago.I was a first-year resident learning in Nephrology. As each day the dialysis room was full. There were people of all ages, older but also young people, connected to the dialysis machine. The hours passed there connected to life. Some of the patient were isolated from the rest and listened to music, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:51+01:0013 January, 2016|
After watching the interview with Alfonso Bassave and Gabi Heras (only available in Spanish), there are many things to reflect. More that interview, it was a conversation of two human beings, two professionals speaking "defenceless" of feelings and emotions. An idea has not stopped turning in my head. A word was repeated on several occasions during the conversation: FEAR.Of course [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:52+01:0012 January, 2016|
Communication is an essential tool for health professionals but we don´t always give the value and attention it deserves. In the case of the assessment of pain, verbal communication with the patient is the key, thus the oral report or self-report of the level of pain by the patient is considered the gold standard for the evaluation. Most of the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:52+01:0010 January, 2016|
Sepsis code, stroke code, polytraumatism code, AMI code...The countdown begins, time is life!. And the clock is our worst enemy, our oppression. Time leads us to use quick protocols which paralyses the reflection, in an override of the thinking and human feeling. We stop to be doctors, health professionals and become protocols machines. And I understand it... Health System is [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:52+01:007 January, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.We start this year with the illusion and magic of opening gifts of Santa Claus (The Kings in Spain), pure emotion. 2016 promises to be an intense year. And that joy also flooded hospitals, and the ICU. Many stories have left these days, and we want to collect some of them.In the IC-HU of Hospital [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:52+01:0030 December, 2015|
2016 begins, again with the customs, the promises we make to ourselves, the review of those 365 days we have just leave. Also in the space alien to time which the ICU is, the New Year comes and the aims and wishes have their hollow. Let us to participate of this, toast with us, with our families, among you, congratulate [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:53+01:0029 December, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Just ending 2015, and we have to give voice to Marisol Martínez, nurse of the Trauma ICU of Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre and author of the most read post of this year (with more than 19,000 visits), to tell us how their research Project is going. "We are developing a study on the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:53+01:0024 December, 2015|
Dear friends: HAPPY CHRISTMAS! For Christmas, and after the great success of the first concert which was held on April 23rd to celebrate the Diada de Sant Jordi, we have repeated the experience of making a concert in the ICU. Thanks to the Coral of the Hospital and the staff of the ICU, we were able to enjoy half an [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:53+01:0023 December, 2015|
"In the ideal Neonatal ICU (NICU), psychosocial support to parents and staff will be targets as important as the health and development of infants". Hynan MT & Hall SL. "Introduction:Psychosocial Program Standards for NICU Parents."J PerinatolSupplement Dec. 2015. I am delighted to find this phrase recently published in a monograph of the Journal of Perinatology, dedicated to psycologycal support not [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:55+01:0022 December, 2015|
Quality of life is a holistic concept (a reality as the sum of everything that composes) open to very different assessments. In classical Greece the best quality of life was lived in the enjoyment of basic human goods. In the current consideration of the West, you would not have the quality of life without such goods? If you see that [...]
