Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:19+01:0016 July, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: I have the immense pleasure to share with you the video of Álvaro Garmuz "Angels without wings", about the work in the Burned ICU of La Paz University Hospital, in Madrid. Probably many of you shared it yesterday. I contacted via vimeo with Álvaro to ask permission to edit the video and put subtitles [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:19+01:0015 July, 2014|
Hola a todos, my dear friends. Some weeks ago, Pedro Martín-Barrajon, health psychologist and coordinator of the Group of Linkedin Psychology of urgencies and emergencies, Emergencies Spanish (AEM) 112 Madrid Association, with more than 2000 followers, published an excellent paper on psychological support to professionals in the emergency. Psychological support to the professionals of emergency, by Silvia Esteban, Unai blacksmiths, Maitane [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:19+01:0010 July, 2014|
Hola a todos, my dear rogué From European Society of Intensive Care website, a very interesting review article is shared. They talk about staff levels and patient mortality. The investigators hypothesised: 1-Higher numbers of nurses on the ICU establishment will be associated with lower rates of patient mortality. 2-Higher numbers of consultants in an ICU will be associated with lower [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:20+01:009 July, 2014|
Hello my dear friends. A few days ago I received and e-mail from Juan Manuel Leyva Moral, he is Nursing Lecturer and International Coordinator at Escola Superior d’Infermeria del Mar in Barcelona (Spain). He told me about his experience on his father’s bedside when he died at the hospital two years ago after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. From the horrible [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:20+01:008 July, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends:Last week, Dr. Odile Fernández (www.misrecetasanticancer.com) published in her blog the post Practice the hugtherapy without moderation! 4 hugs a day for good health!. Odile has the good habit of referencing all reviews, and I saw that one of the items on her post had been published in the journal of the American Association of Nurses of Intensive [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:20+01:005 July, 2014|
My dear friends:This week I'd like to share with you the summary of a story wrote some time ago by Pilar Sordo, a psychologist well-known in Chile."I see a wonderful family worry about the hairstyle of her mother who is in a deep coma, to make her look beautiful at the time of her departure. I see people recover, with smiles [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:21+01:004 July, 2014|
It is not possible to do this, and nurses are the first.It is very easy and it takes very few time. Closer to greet, to say how patient is today, get a smile to relatives who come forward to good news and just finish. They give thanks you with their soul. Let's go back to the root of this profession.Why [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:21+01:0028 June, 2014|
Hola a tod@s: It´s for me an honor to spread the interview which Aitor Lourido, the press officer of SEMICYUC, did to Concha Zaforteza and Gabi Heras during the last Congress. Thanks so much, I hope that you should give it maximum diffusion. We are going to continue working on it, every time with more force! Gabi
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:21+01:0027 June, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my beloved rogue. Published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), I share this review article with title Dying with Dignity in the Intensive Care Unit signed by the doctors Deborah Cook and Graeme Rocker, from Canada. Traditional goals of Intensive Care are to reduce the mortality and morbidity associated with critical illness, maintain organ function [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:22+01:0026 June, 2014|
Hi all, my dear friends. Today double post, since approaching the summer time, to share with you a very special video of the European society of intensive care (ESICM). A few weeks ago they published the video The 4 Elements Every ICU Needs, and which amazed me as many of you that have already seen it. So I contacted Sherry [...]
