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If we do not talk among us

2019-08-02T19:01:08+01:0014 August, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Yesterday I could meet for a coffee with Dr. Salvador Casado. Although he is extremely famous, I am sure that many of you don´t know who he is. He is a Primary Care Physician at the Center of Health of Collado Villalba and a reference due to his blog and Social Media.A couple of months ago, we work together with [...]

I am, by Alberto García Salido

2019-08-02T19:01:08+01:0013 August, 2014|

"And I open the eyes. I am a femoral. A jugular. A too-small tube filled with secretions. I am the blue eyes. Foreign pupils. I am who occasionally blows the monitor alarm. I am the low saturation and sedation window flashing. I am the hematoma under the eyelids. I am the artery that you can not take. The gases flowing always [...]

In positive: an example to follow, by José Luis Díaz

2019-08-02T19:01:09+01:0012 August, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. After more than 8 months, after suffering an infarction and return to tell the story, José wanted to continue telling us his experience during the subsequent follow-up. As many of you are fans of José, I asked him to write a post a few days ago, because he is at last to be discharged. Here [...]

Architectural Design of ICUs

2019-08-02T19:01:11+01:009 August, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: After the post  Relationship between ICU design and patient mortality that I wrote a couple of days ago, Dr. José Manuel Rodríguez Roldán from ICU of Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa from Leganés (one of my mentors when I did the Intensive Care Residency) sent me an email to share something with everybody. Several years ago, he reviewed the Guidelines of Architectural [...]

Humanizing your holidays!!

2019-08-02T19:01:12+01:008 August, 2014|

Hola a tod@s,  my dear rogue! For those who remain,for those who travel,for those who are on the beach, for those who are on night shif today, for those who are in a traffic-jam,for those who drink Tinto de verano, beer or Gin Tonic,for patients,for families,for healthcare workers...  Wherever you will stay and who you are, IC-HU Project (thanks to Alberto, [...]

Relationship between ICU design and mortality.

2019-08-02T19:01:12+01:007 August, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Published in Chest in 2010, today I share with you the article "Relationship between ICU design and mortality". It is an issue which is pending of speaking, writing and analyzing calmly.All of us who work in ICUs that architecturally we stick, and always think... who have thought this Unit on plane?.Architectural design can affect the safety [...]

To see further away

2019-08-02T19:01:12+01:006 August, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear rogue. Today there is summer film in IC-HU Project. Probably you have seen this video, but I would like to share the tráiler of one of my favourite films, Patch Adams. Because we can decide to see further away, only depends on everybody of us.   Happy Wednesday, Gabi

The Beryl Institute: Improving the Patient Experience

2019-08-02T19:01:13+01:005 August, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: Following in the line of discovering and disseminating organizations that fight for  Humanized heathcare as a fact, today I want to present an impressive institution which Kathy Torpie shared with me.   The Beryl Institute, of the United States of America, is a global community whose fundamental mission is to improve the patient experience. Founded in [...]

Today in IC-HU Project…The Humanizing of Health Center

2019-08-02T19:01:13+01:002 August, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today I want to share with you probably the reference for the humanization of health website in Spain: The Humanizing of Health Center located in Tres Cantos and directed by José Carlos Bermejo, which is responsible for taking care of and teach others to take care of. With the base of the humanization ever-present in the assistance, [...]

The tired families

2019-08-02T19:01:13+01:001 August, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, mi dear rogue: Very interesting article published online first in  Intensive Care Medicine  talking about family fatigue and sleepiness. In "Half of the family members of critically ill patients experience excessive daytime sleepiness",  Dr. Verceles and his team of Baltimore University study Sleepiness and fatigue in ICU family members. They used several Scales (Epworth Sleepiness Scale y the Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire-10, FOSQ-10)  and psychomotor [...]

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