Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:27+01:0011 August, 2015|
In the first post I wrote for the IC-HU Project I was wondering if any architect or person responsible for the ICU design project had asked your needs before making a hospital project.As I mentioned above, the interior designers and architects before beginning to develop a project we talk with the customer and we ask him a lot of questions. [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:28+01:008 August, 2015|
As usual, I was receiving one of my Google Alerts, regarding topic in mechanical ventilation, and I was really curious, reading a pretty “strange” study title “The influence of music during mechanical ventilation and weaning from mechanical ventilation: A review - Breanna Hetland, Ruth Lindquist, Linda L. Chlan” I still hadn’t the chance to read the full article, but my [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:28+01:007 August, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today we want to give diffusion a Critical Care review about intensive care unit acquired weakness, one of the most frequent problems we see in our patients with long stays and which have sequels during a medium-long term. It´s in open access, so there are no excuses!. The authors speak of incidence, pathophysiology, risk factors, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:28+01:006 August, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Diario.es of Andalucía has recently published a new we want to spread: Spanish public hospital have less than five psychologist per 100.000 inhabitantsThe Spanish public hospitals have 2120 psychologists: we would need 5000 more. The European average is 18, but the Nordic countries have 70 psychologists per 100,000 inhabitants.Huge waiting list despite the prevalence of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:28+01:005 August, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today we want to share a recent article by Anna Aliberch and Isabel Miquel in Enfermería Intensiva. It´s a very interesting review about the need for the role of the patient´s family at ICU. An ICU admittance is a situation of crisis and change.If we facilitate family participation, it will decrease their anxiety and stress [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:28+01:004 August, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Yesterday morning, my good friend Anibal sent me a video that we want to share with all of you. Today's post will not be the most watched of this blog, and certainly I do not intended to talk about the politics of a country that first and foremost we respect and do not know.But [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:29+01:001 August, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Although it is Saturday, I send mandatory duties today. We want to share with you all the TED talk Let´s talk about dying, by Dr. Peter Saul. In the same line of An emotional awakening, inviting us to stop and think to modify the process. These are the key ideas:- All of us [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:29+01:0031 July, 2015|
Clinical trials of new treatments are published daily, and we are glad when one of these publications is our specialty-related thinking; "A new treatment that we can use".But we forget much simpler treatments. They could reach all disciplines and all countries regardless of financial resources.And what is that treatment? Look at this story happened in our ICU, you will give [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:29+01:0030 July, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Recently, Belén Viloria sent me this image. Today we share it with the owners generous permission with the intention of generating debate among all.My first reaction was to think "This is incredible...Our patients already connected up in the ICU and narrating their admission".On the other hand, I have never wanted to live as a user [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:30+01:0029 July, 2015|
Really awesome the article published online last week in Annals of Intern Medicine: “Personalizing Death in the Intensive Care Unit: The 3 Wishes Project: A Mixed-Methods Study” by Dr. Deborah Cook and her team of McMaster University Health Sciences Center in Hamilton, Ontario. The "3 wishes Project" wants to improve and dignify the process of death for ICU patients, allows [...]
