Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:54+01:0014 September, 2016|
"Dog is man's best friend". How many times we heard this phrase, but only who has a dog knows that really is as well. My name is Ruben, I am 26 years old and I am a nurse of the ICU of the Hospital Moisés Broggi of Sant Joan Despí, and I have a dog. Three year ago I was [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:54+01:0013 September, 2016|
The main priority of the patients and families who suffer critical illness is recover the state of health, relegating to a second flat in the most of the occasions the emotional welfare, even their own privacy and in many cases, accepting that they can´t choose in their "role" of sick persons. Disease threatens two fundamental pillars of human dignity: privacy and autonomy. The dependence [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:54+01:0010 September, 2016|
The needles cross, superimposed, collide.Linking a strand and again, they cross. Two needles and a ball of wool gray. Gray as the sky of the bad omens. In her sixty two years Juana weaves, as all her life she did it. When she is asked what she is weaving the response leaves without delay: "A scarf for him, for when he wake up" Beside [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:55+01:009 September, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. A couple of months ago and thanks to Enric Benito, I met Gonzalo Brito after have seen a talk in the last Congress of SECPAL. Gonzalo is from Chile, and he is a clinical psychologist clinical that expanded his training in the Compassion and Altruism Research and Education of the school of Medicine of the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:55+01:008 September, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Sometimes, people known and admire by me publish multicenter articles with much effort and work. And the truth is that one can´t leave smiling and feeling proud.Today we talk about Nacho Latorre, from the ICU of Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, and for sure about all the collaborators from 20 Spanish ICU of 14 Hospitals that [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:55+01:007 September, 2016|
In our work, there are many occasions that we must establish communication with the patient's family, in order to inform about the future care of the patient or to assess the status. Surely, many of us have could observe and even participate in an ineffective communication with families, in many occasions fruit of them prejudices and interpretations performed by professionals [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:55+01:006 September, 2016|
Hola a todos, my dear friends.We start September with the first of many invitations. After the presentation of the Humanization Plan of Intensive Care Units of the Community of Madrid, a serie of training activities for professionals organized by the General Direction of Coordination of Citizen Care and Humanization of Health Assistance of the Community of Madrid will take place, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:56+01:003 September, 2016|
Intensive Care Medicine has just published an interesting short article, in which Drs. Jeffrey D. Edwards (Columbia University), Louis P. Voigt and Judith E. Nelson (Memorial Sloan Kattering Cancer Center, New York) summarize ten key points on the provision of palliative care in the intensive care unit (ICU). They argue that, to ensure the best care in the ICU, palliative [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:56+01:002 September, 2016|
In the last Congress of Argentinean Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SATI) held in Salta, there was a gale of news. A difference from previous years, news came not only from classical areas of intensive care such as shock, acute distress respiratory syndrome or sepsis, but we saw the appearance of humanizing intensive care on the scene and the increasingly [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:56+01:001 September, 2016|
99 days The skin prepared, warm between the sheets. The body quiet, waiting. The breathing rhythm, deep. The lover doesn´t arrive, looks like to appear but he isn´t shown. The memory of the touch of another, drawing in the body worlds invented by both, known by none. The weight of the own body and its solitude, accompanied by the breath [...]
