Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:54+01:0023 September, 2014|
Hello everybody, my dear friends. Published in the pages of the opinion of the New York Times on September 4, 2014 by Pranay Sinha, I present this impresive article the suicide of two residents during the month of September. Photo by Anna Parini The statistics are chilling: doctors commit suicide twice as the rest of the population, and whether they are [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:56+01:0022 September, 2014|
My dear friends: the IC-HU Project blogs www.proyectohuci.com and www.humanizingintensivecare.com have exceeded 100,000 page views today. Awesome notice!.Thanks a lot. Since February 2014, we are working to build awareness and change, and it will be possible because everybody add more.The 21st century will be the century of the attention focused on the Human Being.A hug and congratulations!GabiPS: 100,000 thanks to www.enfermeraenapuros.com by continue [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:57+01:0020 September, 2014|
As a nurse working in Intensive Care, I have moments in which emotions get much deeper tan expected. My own vulnerability is confronting. Do I lose control or do I experience the essence of my job as a nurse? Kathy, your story on You Tube and your saying “the touch that isn’t effective or that didn’t hurt” made a deep [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:57+01:0019 September, 2014|
On July 22, 2014 June was born . Her mother had risk of abortion at the beginning of the pregnancy and had to be resting the majority of the time. All were unknowns and doubts. Too many. But she was born and all smiled relieved. In her first hospital review after a while of birth doctors already saw she had some [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:57+01:0018 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s my dear friends: Dr. Dolores Escudero head of the ICU of Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias and one of the member of the Research Team IC-HU Project, wants to remember us this survey directed to ICUs of Spain about visit politics and comfortability. Objectives: Learn about the Spanish ICU visit politics Meet the organizational and architectural generals aspects of the Spanish [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:58+01:0016 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. I want to share a great happines and a great surprise with everybody. Today, seven months after start the Blog, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation published today a post I wrote to promote our Project in United States. Of course, this time in English!! Why complain and do nothing to make change? Because it´s time [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:58+01:0016 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: Published on July 2014 in Nursing in Critical Care, the Journal of British Association of Critical Care Nurses, our mate and member of IC-HU Network Concha Zaforteza and her team talk about a fascinating topic. Families of critically ill patients have unmet needs that are not being addressed. Lack of attention to these needs is related more to the ICU [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:58+01:0013 September, 2014|
Patients who survive sepsis still remains a long way after their discharge from ICU. A large number of these survivors will present post-ICU syndrome, which includes sequels:- Physical: both by atrophy muscle functional disabilities such as nerve damage (polyneuropathy or myopathy of the critically ill patient), loss of body mass (cachexia, atrophy), problems swallowing or speaking, generalized weakness with limited capacity [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:59+01:0012 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear Friends. Today ends the week of #UciSinSujecciones and I didn't want to finish it without bringing you a review article on the subject.Published in 2007 in Nursing in Critical Care, the journal of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses , the article The use of physical restraint in critical care talks about this ítem. The abstract begins: "Critically [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:59+01:0011 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Yesterday I had the possibility to meet in person the Center of Humanization of the Health, which is located in Tres Cantos, Madrid. It is a Center endorsement by Community of Madrid and that performs assistance work, palliative care, and teaching. In IC-HU Project we already knew that they are a reference and we had disseminated [...]
