Gabi Heras2014-04-24T09:49:00+01:0024 April, 2014|
Hello everybody my dear rogues:American Society of Intensive Care (SCCM) has just released an iPad app in order to break down the barriers of communication of patients who are admitted to ICU, cannot speak: patients on mechanical ventilation, with problems of hearing, limitation of the language and so on.The application has capacity for translation into 19 languages, a scale that [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:40+01:0023 April, 2014|
Hello everybody, my dear friends. So that is my question today. I feel that this IC-HU Project is going through several constructed barriers that I do not know if they have any sense over the years. And I also feel that it is in our hands, in our will, switch alltogether the written history, or that it has been written. So happy to see how we establish networks of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:41+01:0022 April, 2014|
Hola everobody, my dear amig@s (I am going to start Spanish lessons!)Returning to the topic already started in Do we need a Code Death?, today I want to share with you an article published in Medicina Intensiva in 2011 by Dra. Rosa Poyo-Guerrero and other components of the Committee of Ethics of the Hospital Son Llàtzer in Palma de Mallorca. Life-sustaining treatment limitation (LSTL) [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:41+01:0021 April, 2014|
Hello everybody, my beloved rascals:What about these Easter holidays? It was fantastic for me, enjoying my family. Wanting war, today I present you the video that will change your way of working if you do it in an ICU.By the great Dr. Nicolás Nin from Montevideo, I have received an email with this video that comes from the Antipodes. In New Zealand there is [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:41+01:0017 April, 2014|
Hi all, my beloved Friends.Before you start to enjoy the Easter, I would like to share with everybody a last post for all these days.Thanks to 2.0 I have learned that there are other ways of teaching and that we can learn in a different way. And it comes from Australia:FOAM means Free Open Access Meducation: medical education for everyone, anytime, anywhere. This term was [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:41+01:0016 April, 2014|
Hello everybody, my dear friends.Today this blog is 2 months old, and continues to grow powerful and on fireThank you very much for follow it.Today I would like to share an article thanks to Dr. Vicente Gomez-Tello, published in March 2013 in The New England Journal of Medicine.Thorny issue. This is a study carried out in France, where recruited to 570 relatives of patients who [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:42+01:0015 April, 2014|
Hello everybody! ANA is 23, and left the Canary Islands looking for better fortune labor. And she came to Madrid. Like many of us, she is a healthcare provider (particularly nurse) and she is looking her place in life.Like many Spaniards, is unemployed.The Burnout, job unsatisfaction, the NO-contracts, contracts month-to- month, stress, shifts and salaries that do not represent the value of the work that we do... [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:42+01:0013 April, 2014|
Hello everybody, my dear rascals:Before anything, I would like to tell you that I miss you... many days ago that there is no comments in the post, and the truth is that feedback is necessary for the IC-HU Project makes sense. It is not only that you read, I would like you to participate actively with your points of view. So all of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:42+01:0011 April, 2014|
Garry Kaspárov was born in the capital of the Russian Republic of Azerbaijan.His legend says that he learned the rules of chess noting how his parents solved problems. One day gave the solution to one of them.Kasparov won the Youth Championship of the USSR at the age of 13, and repeated it at 14. When he was only 16 years old, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:43+01:0010 April, 2014|
Hello my Friends: After the incredible yesterday football match (thanks to Barcelona supporters for fair play), I would like to share another article. This one has been revised by Dr. Björn Weiss in ESICM. Pandharipande and colleagues revealed that every fourth critically ill patient has a long-term cognitive impairment comparable to mild Alzheimer’s disease one year after discharge. Their article was [...]
