Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:07+01:005 November, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. We follow and we will continue speaking and much of "The caring of the Invisible" (as soon as possible in English!). If in less than 24 hours it has 2700 views on YouTube, something is happening in the ICU. Now the challenge is, as yesterday said Jose Manuel Velasco, that this wave of emotion [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:07+01:003 November, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Recently, ICU members of the Hospital Infanta Cristina presented in General session of the Hospital their new protocol for life-sustaining treatment limitation. To do this, they created a multidisciplinary working group made up with all the ICU professionals (assistants, nurses and doctors). From the recommendations of different Scientific Societies, they have drawn up [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:07+01:0031 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Finally, this crazy October ends. We had a very entertaining month visiting different parts of the country and building new bonds that humanize the assistance.Today I want to introduce you to J.M Salas, author of one of my favorite blogs: Con Tinta de Médico (With doctor's ink) I bring here a recent interview (only available [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:08+01:0029 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.As we promised, here you have the talk in pdf format "Humanizing intensive care in the process of dying" (only available in Spanish) that we recently did at the Hospital Universitario San Juan de Alicante. Don't miss the videos! They are really good and illustrative.We hope you enjoy it and that may be useful. Thanks [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:08+01:0028 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. I would like today to share an article published in IntraMed by Dr. Rubén Mayer (only available in Spanish) on non-verbal communication. This is our summary.Our body speaks beyond words. In his book "Nonverbal communication", Sergio Rulicki defines it as a complement to the words and transmitted language through different channels: we talk also [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:08+01:0027 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends:EnDiGra 2015 (ENFERMERÍA DIGITAL GRANADA 2015) is a Conference seeking to integrate the care and the digital world. New technologies can add great value to care, in particular digital tools. The Conference will be held on Friday October 30th, in the Hall of the Hospital General Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Granada and will be presented [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:08+01:0024 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Our recent trip to Oporto to the Jornadas de Medicina Intensiva da Primavera is giving the first fruits. We are extremely grateful to our Portuguese friends, who made us feel as at home and have been interested in the IC-HU Project massively.Irene Aragão and Ana Guerra, from the ICU of the Hospital de Santo Antonio do Porto want to share [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:09+01:0023 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today we share the news recently published in Medscape Critical Care, about an article of Surgery journal: Eye-Tracking Devices may help ICU Patients Communicate, especially those who receive mechanical ventilation and who cannot speak. The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has conducted a pilot study in 12 patients, all of whom werw capable of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:09+01:0022 October, 2015|
This month, the Spanish Society of Intensive Care, Critical medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) has opened a new section on its website devoted to patients and their families. Under the title "A look inside the ICU", SEMICYUC aims to provide scientific and quality information, in equal measure, as usually does for professionals in Intensive Care Medicine, allowing patients and their [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:09+01:0021 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. A couple of weeks ago we enjoyed with our friends of Hospital San Juan de Alicante, where we were talking about "Humanizing Intensive Care in the process of dying" (this talk will be available in Spanish as soon as possible in this blog on pdf format). One of the attendees at the Conference was [...]
