Gabi Heras, Author at Proyecto HUCI

Influence of Physical Restraint on Unplanned Extubation of Adult Intensive Care Patients

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:59+01:0010 September, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: We continue with the week of #UciSinSujecciones (ICU free of restraints) and the truth is that we are delighted with the debate generated in the networks. At the moment, as well as the support and dissemination of colleagues Dr. Salvador Casado, Nightingaleandco, and so on, enfermeritico.com and nuestraenfermeria.es have been published content about this ítem in their blogs and from here we say thank [...]

The Science of Security of patients and the great challenge: their participation

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:00+01:009 September, 2014|

Many years since the famous paper “to err is human” evidenced the impact and the significance of the medical aid associated risks. Therefore, many resources have been destinated to reduce unnecessary risks and improvement of the patient’s safety. Even the science advances about patient’s safety and the achievements in some specific areas, we are almost already far from reaching our [...]

Towars an #UciSinSujecciones (ICU free of mechanical fasteners) , por Conchi Faura

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:00+01:008 September, 2014|

Hello a tod@s, my dear friends:IC-HU Project begins the specific activities to call everyone to action, with a measure in which we need your participation and interaction: #UciSinSujecciones We ask you that, in all of Spain and the rest of the world, remove the ICUs mechanical fasteners to your patients, and share a photo in our @HUMANIZALAUCI twitter account or Facebook Group HUMANIZANDO [...]

Open door intensive care unit: View of the professionals

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:01+01:005 September, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Today we make diffusion of an article published in the latest issue of Enfermería Intensiva, the Journal of the Spanish Society of Intensive Nursing and Coronary Units, SEEIUC.From the ICU of the Hospital Universitario de Álava in Vitoria, the authors present us what professionals think about visiting in ICU.Despite the publications concerning and the [...]

What I want to hear at the end of my life, by elenfermerodelpendiente

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:01+01:004 September, 2014|

Javi is a great intensivist. In size and in person. He is a good friend and awesome intensivist. Javi´s mother dies in the icu box. Both of them know, look at their eyes and know it. They try to comfort each other, they speak in whispers, they know that they have a few words that say and few looks to [...]

First of all we are people…not untouchable machines, by Gema Avefénix

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:01+01:003 September, 2014|

Passengers of our lives, a trip through the time full of all kinds of events, some expected and others unexpected.Untouchables face to problems that produce us so much fear to be protagonists of them, that we become unconscious beings, invaded by a mechanized society full of appearances and rush... no time to breathe, nor reflect, without time to observe and [...]

Empathy, by José I Ricarte

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:04+01:002 September, 2014|

Empathy seems to me one of the basic skills in the Humanization of Health. But, what is empathy?. Surely we could discuss much about the different definitions. Put in the role of the patient, something beyond understanding, try to learn and put the other´s shoes...and how is taught or how can we learn?. If we have never had an urinary [...]

Humanize the duel with-passion: Carmen Segovia

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:04+01:0030 August, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: Yesterday I had the fortune to know personally one of the persons in Spain that has most knowledgeable about communication in critical situations. Constant smile and exquisite service, she taught me the headquarters of the National Organisation of Transplants and introduced me to the team with a normalcy that made me feel as at [...]

Family involvement in the critically ill patient basic care, by José Manuel Velasco

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:05+01:0029 August, 2014|

Visit in the ICU are in fashion. At least an increase of interest about the subject is verifiable. But we are probably retarded in these aspects in the ICU, because in many cases we continue to maintain restrictive policies introduced in the last century. Policies that do not support a deep discussion with the same archaic arguments which were used [...]

Let the music sound!

Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:05+01:0028 August, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amig@s. Music is part of our lives, that is an irrefutable fact. We like it, it distracts us, helps us, calm us, it brings back memories. There is not a single day that we don't listen it in one way or another. Published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2013, the article Effects of [...]

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