Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:59+01:008 April, 2015|
Hello, I am Yurena Montoro, intensivist of Hospital General de Requena. All we know that getting sick is a new and unwanted situation that alters our future life, personal and family, and when it involves an hospital admission especially in an Intensive Care Unit, causing fear and suffering. Most of us who are dedicated to this profession have a real vocation [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:00+01:007 April, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends:Thanks to María Jesús Ballesta we have known the first edition of the Best Initiatives on Patient Safety Awards , of the Group IDCsalud-Quirón. These awards wants to encourage the development of safe practices to users and health professionals, recognizing the best projects of 2014 and 2015 economically.Projects may be submitted until 10 may (see [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:00+01:002 April, 2015|
We give one step further within the initiative "12 months, 12 gestures" and focus on a word that represents the essence of the great work we do every day as health professionals: ACCOMPANYING Because we accompany our patients and their families every day. We accompany them since they are born until they die, often in hard and complicated times. At [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:00+01:001 April, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Just published in Intensive Care Medicine, we share today a summary of the article Non-verbal communication to restore patient–provider trust. Very interesting putting the focus on attitudes that many times go unnoticed. Here it is:JH was admitted to the trauma unit after being crushed between two buses. She had a fracture of pelvis, shattered thigh [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:01+01:0031 March, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends,As a promise is a debt, we got in touch with Montserrat Soler, the auxiliary nurse of Emergency Department of the Hospital Universitario San Juan de Alicante, author of a guide to humanize care of patients and families in this area of the hospital. Well, really Montse was who contacted me after last week's post. [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:01+01:0028 March, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear Friends. Dra. María Aranda from Palma de Mallorca shares with us today the following sequence of Monty Python, that invites to casual reflection. Through humor we can learn many things and analyze our own behavior. And sometimes technology abducts us and relegates the patient to a second scenario. There are also many machines that make "Beep" [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:02+01:0025 March, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.In the frame of the Day of Aragonese network of 2015 Health-Promoting Schools, past March 11th took place the presentation of the Previous Online Sample XIII Awards Cinema and Health. Before the celebration of XIII Awards Cinema and Health -next Saturday April 18th at Sala Aragón de Ibercaja in Zaragoza-, untill April 7th starts the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:02+01:0025 March, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.In the same sense of last week post, Raising the volume: Music in ICU, Guillaume Decormeille, nurse in Toulouse, wants to share with us a beautiful experience that are developing in his ICU.From Spain, The IC-HU Project is very grateful with you because of sharing your experience. Congratulations and keep in on!."In the new UCI [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:02+01:0024 March, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Something is changing in the hospital, specially at Emergency Department of the Hospital Universitario San Juan de Alicante. Montserrat Soler, auxiliary nurse, has edited "The Human Factor at Emergency Department", a guide to humanize care of patients and families in this area of the hospital. Source: alicanteactualidad.com In her own words, "Humanize care requires [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:03+01:0021 March, 2015|
He had an acute lung edema when he came through the door of our ICU accompanied by emergency team and an Oxylog aside because of the probability of respiratory arrest. Extreme sweating, that typical pallor, wheezing to listening with the stethoscope, stridor to simple ear... He breathed with thoraco-abdominal asynchrony, saturation was 86%, high flow with reservoir O2 mask when he [...]
