Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:22+01:0025 August, 2015|
Palliative Care traditionally have been taking care of patients with terminal diseases, whom a comprehensive care in the final phase of life is offered. Perhaps that is the reason why despite to be considered a valuable resource is difficult to release it from a negative connotation: offer something when medicine has already surrendered to death.A recent publication in New England [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:22+01:0022 August, 2015|
Imagine.Just imagine for a moment that you can not move. Your body lies inert on a hard surface.You can hear, you see, sometimes you connect with your around... but others you do not. Back to close your eyes and return to plunge you in the purest and most silent darkness.But there you are: alive, seeing and hearing, but not be [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:23+01:0021 August, 2015|
Today, we recommend a reading that Dr. Daniel Flichtentrei (IntraMed Medical Director, the medical community of Latin American Internet website) shares with all of us. "Permission to die," is full of stories about "death with dignity", true stories turned into literature by some of the best Argentine writers.In the words of the author:"Never before in the history of mankind is [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:26+01:0020 August, 2015|
Hello everybody, my dear friends.The #MásPlazasPIR platform shared last week a very interesting new published in diario.es: "Cantabria recorded 46 cases of young physicians attended by mental health problems and addictions in 2014".The Medical Organization College estimates that in Spain, between 10 and 12 percent of physicians in exercise can suffer throughout his/her professional life a mental disorder or an [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:26+01:0019 August, 2015|
When we admitte a patient at one of our Intensive Care Units, in the majority of cases, our main goal is that he/she will survive. It is something almost intuitive to an intensivist, mainly in the first moments after the admittance. Later, we are proposing other objectives and goals, according to the pathology, and this is the moment in which [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:26+01:0018 August, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.A few days ago Enric Benito sent me his presentation "Humanizing the process of dying", which took place in VíaENcuentro 2015 Meeting. I recommed you not miss it, as it is the best that has fallen into my hands lately. These are the key points, which are developed with science, humor and affection during the talk. [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:26+01:0015 August, 2015|
We always say when we read a new that we should read several newspapers to know what has actually taken place.To find out which are the needs of an ICU, it is very important to do this exercise. This week we asked his opinion to the ICU professionals Vicente Gómez-Tello and Laura Díaz, to José Luis Díaz as ICU expatient [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:27+01:0014 August, 2015|
We could not finish this week of interviews without talking with the engine of the ICU. The angels without wings are the nurses, and they develop their day-to-day beside the bed. For this purpose we have interviewed to Laura Díaz, nurse of Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre. What are the needs for ICU professionals to [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:27+01:0013 August, 2015|
His father was admitted during 19 days on last May, in an ICU of Madrid, and as Manuel López says, "that time has probably been the worst days of my life".Waiting for the two daily visits made him eternal, in a room overcrowded without ventilation and with only eight chairs. "We seemed more cattle than people," he recalls.So, we keep [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:27+01:0012 August, 2015|
Today's post is the second part of the tretralogy: Designing the ICU.Designing the ICU is formed by three important pillars: professionals, patients, and family members. I have raised all these same questions to meet the needs of each one of the pillars that make up this project.Today is the turn to the patient. We have asked their collaboration to José Luis [...]
