Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:01+01:005 August, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos. Last week was published in Intensive Care Medicine a new article by the IC-HU Project about restricted visitation policies for children in adults ICU.Yoana Skrobik, from Canada, was surprised after reading the article, and she sent me an email with her opinion. She has let me share it. In the end, everything depends on where [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:01+01:004 August, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos. As you know, last week we ask your collaboration in the survey about the current situation of Humanization of your ICU. We have received 136 forms from ICU of 20 different countriesWe will share step by step the results.To those 136 people, I sent by e-mail the Humanization Plan of ICU created for the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:02+01:003 August, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.Next destination of the IC-HU Project: Argentina. We have been invited as speakers in the 26º Congress of Argentine Society of Intensive Care Medicine which is going to be held in Salta. This is the premilinary program. We have the pride and honor to talk in four sessions: Thursday, August 25th Bioethics Room 1010:00 - [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:02+01:002 August, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos.We share today with you the Humanization Plan of the ICU in the Community of Madrid, a reproducible and exportable model for any ICU in the world. The plan is the result of the work during nine months of a group of 42 people (patients, families, ICU professionals and others areas -computer experts, architects, designers-) [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:05+01:0029 July, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos. A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Lic. Mª Isabel Morales, a pediatric and neonatal intensive care nurse. She is Venezuelan, but lives and works in Cordoba (Argentina).And she shared a reflection after reading the post Children under...not admitted by Ángela Alonso, that is going to be published soon as a [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:05+01:0028 July, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.As you know, yesterday we published a small form to test the current situation of humanization of our ICU, to take a first photography of how we are now for know to where going. Here the first results are, and we encourage you to continue to send responses from all parts of the world. Replies [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:05+01:0027 July, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos. As you know, we are nearly to publish the whole document Humanization Plan of the ICU of the Community of Madrid , which is a recommendations tool to humanize any ICU in the World. We want to count with your help to know exactly what things are been doing already in each ICU, and [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:05+01:0026 July, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.From 41 French ICU (network FAMIREA) a new tool is proposed to assess relatives’ experience of dying and death in the ICU. The hypothesis: to know their experience will allow us to implement preventive actions for the management of family grief. The article has just been published on Intensive Care. The authors designed and validated [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:06+01:0020 July, 2016|
I have never thought it before. It was after attending to the #2JHUCI where I participated in Module 2: Technology, structure and humanization: are compatibles?. And my respond is YES, for sure.And it also begins to be already a reality. The new health spaces are projected by combining early technology, structure and humanization, as the new Hospital Royal Adelaide (RAH) [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:06+01:0019 July, 2016|
Annals of American Thoracic Society has just published in July a very interesting article on the presence of family members during Intensive Care Unit (ICU) procedures. Its authors (physicians, nurses and members of the ICU Patient and Family Advisory Council at the Intermountain Medical Center in Utah, USA), present their experience of years trying to make the Intermountain Medical Center’s [...]
