Gabi Heras, Author at Proyecto HUCI

Variability among ICU in managing patients with preexisting limits on Life-Sustaining therapies

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:54+01:0023 April, 2015|

Hello everybody, my dear friends.Today Iñaki Saralegui share with us the following article recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine: Variability Among US Intensive Care Units  in Managing the Care of Patients Admitted  With Preexisting Limits on Life-Sustaining Therapies . It is a retrospective study that analyzes the data from the IMPACT project, which includes 277.693 patients admitted to 141 ICUs [...]

My ICU days, by Marina García

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:54+01:0022 April, 2015|

July 9th 2014: I open my eyes...I can´t move my hands, body-wide pain is unbearable, something out of my throat and I am not at home. I don't know where I am or what time is, there are photos of my son and my husband, some drawings with my name, an image of the Virgin of St. Nicholas and a [...]

Humanization will open the National Congress of San Sebastián

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:55+01:0021 April, 2015|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.As many of you know, in June from 14th to 17th will take place in San Sebastian the 50th National Congress of the Spanish Society of Intensive, Critical Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) and the 41st National Congress of the Spanish Society of Intensive Nursing and Coronary Units (SEEIUC).Today is a gratifying personal to share [...]

Fine-tuning the partnership with ICU families

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:55+01:0018 April, 2015|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today we want to share with you Involvement of ICU families in decisions: fine-tuning the partnership, a recent review of Dr. Elie Azoulay with open access in Annals of Intensive Care.Families are not just visitors. They are in sudden grief for the loss of health and they must adapt to an unknown and intimidating atmosphere. [...]

40 days for the National Conference on Humanization

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:55+01:0017 April, 2015|

Hello everybody, my dear friends. Just 40 days for the 20th National Conference of humanization: "Humanizing Intensive Care", and this is an update of practical information. First of all, to communicate to you that the Conference has been credited by the Commission of Continued Formation with 1,8 credits (nº exp: 07-AFOC-01092.5/2015), in addition to the accreditation of the Universidad [...]

#sonrisasquecuran (smiles that heal): PayasoSalud

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:56+01:0016 April, 2015|

"I come into your room very slowly with my red nose, in silence. You have lost eyes, although I really think that some sort of vision problem don´t let you feel my presence. Slowly I am by your side, your face remains impassive, I breathe, and the notes of my ukulele begin to sound.At that moment your face is suddenly [...]

The ten barriers to appropriate management of patients at the end of their life

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:56+01:0014 April, 2015|

In the article published in Intensive Care Medicine by Hillamn y Cardona-Morell, the main barriers that hinder an appropiate management of patients at the end of life are described. It is becoming more common the dilemma of admitting and treat in ICU certain patients that intensive medicine no longer can offer them what they really need: accepting the death process [...]

IC-HU Project road to Badajoz

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:56+01:0011 April, 2015|

Hola a tod@s, my dear Friends. Our colleagues of Humanization in Health and Disease have invited us, and we have accepted delighted. Within the 2nd Conference on Law and Health organized by the Official College of Nurses of Badajoz, we will participate in the gathering: "The rights and duties of patients and the media" It will be on April [...]

The child who confused the hospital with her home

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:59+01:0010 April, 2015|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Next Wednesday April 15th will take place at Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús the First Meeting for reflection on the current situation of complex chronic pediatric patients in the community of Madrid (click here to access the program, only available in Spanish).As you can see, among other issues it is pediatric intensive care and [...]

I National Congress of Psychology applied to Urgencies and Emergencies

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:59+01:009 April, 2015|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.For IC-HU Proyect, it is a pleasure and an honor collaborate and diffund the I National Congress of Psychology applied to Urgencies and Emergencies, which will take place in Madrid from 25 to 27 September. The Congress, presided by our good friend and collaborator Pedro Martín-Barrajón is aimed at all types of professionals: psychologists, nurses, [...]

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