Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:06+01:0016 July, 2016|
Recently, four american scientific societies of Intensive Care Medicine, have launched a call for action about the burnout syndrome (BOS) of the ICU professionals. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine have published a document whose aim is to generate awareness and give visibility to the burnout syndrome, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:07+01:0014 July, 2016|
To be health care professional (in my case, a nurse) and at the same time a critically ill patient is hard. To see the faces of teammates to attend you, monitors, techniques that are practicing you... everything is a summation and you know where you are going.I am an emergency nurse in a a third level Hospital of Barcelona. Young [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:07+01:0013 July, 2016|
When I was doing my training on Intensive Care Medicine, already nearing the end of the specialty, I had the honour to do the farewell speech after that five years. I recently found that speech. At the end, it said something like this: "... We have learned that our patients depend on us, and our obligation and vocation is not [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:07+01:0012 July, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos.Don´t miss one of the events of the year: September 24th, Saturday at LAVA – Laboratorio de las Artes de Valladolid.TEDxValladolid comes back. As you can remember, they gave us the the oportunity last year with the talk "The Care of Invisible". This time, it will be WONDER.Wonder, wonder and wonder. Wanting always to know more, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:08+01:008 July, 2016|
HUG (Spanish language definition): action and effect of embrace. To HUG: 1. Wrap with the arms. 2. Strengthen the arms as a sign of affection. […] 3. Understand, contain, include. Who don't like a hug? Everyone likes to be embrace and embrace. But we tend to choose the people to give our hugs and just allow ourselves to embrace by [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:08+01:007 July, 2016|
Some time ago, @Humanizar_salud asked the question: "What´s humanize for you?" and I wanted to respond, but it is so much that it didn't fit me in a tweet. The first time I heard the word "humanize" I was eight years old. My father had a heart attack and the nurse that took care of him didn´t look at him [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:08+01:005 July, 2016|
The provision of care in the intensive care unit (ICU) is based on extremely innovative technology and cutting-edge techniques, often prioritizing the delivery of aggressive treatment to manage the disease while neglecting the human dimension of the patient. However, in recent times there has been a surge in the introduction of Palliative care in the ICU, which is the focus [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:11+01:002 July, 2016|
In the wall of the box 6, opposite the bed, there is a photo of a Little girl, about three or four years old dressed with the typicall clothes of Madrid, with her dress, her shawl, her headscarf and a carnation. She looks funny in the camera, half side, with hands on hips. She looks at each one who comes [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:11+01:001 July, 2016|
The Real Spanish Academy of Language (RAE) defines "Humanize" as "Making something or someone having a look or nature human or showing influence of humans, or confer a more human character (in a moral sense), doing something nicer or less rigorous". If it is a term defined and so well explained by the RAE, why do not we humanize the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:12+01:0028 June, 2016|
Liver function: “The liver is a solid víscera that ...”Luis. His daughter. After two days of birth: familiar progressive intrahepatic cholestasis . Alagille síndrom.Luis and his family are castilians: their solution in Madrid. - "Your daughter needs a new liver." - "Can I donate her a part of mine?"A blessed echocardiography puts another challenge on the road: atrial septal defect. [...]
