Gabriel Heras2018-02-20T10:15:23+01:0027 January, 2018|
New England Journal of Medicine has recently published the article To Care is Human- Collectively Confronting the Clinician- Burnout Crisis. This publication describes the alarming problem of burnout among health care providers. Burnout generates depression and an increase in the frequency of suicide among staff. Besides the negative impact on health professionals and their families, burnout generates an inefficient system, increasing [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:37+01:0022 December, 2017|
Hola a todos, my dear friends. Let´s celebrate one more time! We want you to join us! The Council of America Society of Critical Care Medicine officially granted yesterday its endorsement to Proyecto HU-CI, becoming the eleventh scientific Society of Intensive Care that trusts us and the first non-Spanish language. Very very proud of the tremendous multidisciplinary team that I [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:37+01:0014 December, 2017|
Let´s celebrate!. A high impact journal as Intensive Care Medicine, starts talking in What’s new in Intensive Care about the use of physical restraints (PR) in critically ill patients. Perhaps it could sound rare to affirm that the use of PR is a new issue, but the were no studies or references till very late years ago. It was really difficuld to [...]
Gabriel Heras2017-11-16T07:38:37+01:0016 November, 2017|
ML was admitted in ICU six months ago with a severe Guillain-Barre syndrome. We knew she would stay many days with us since the beggining The first day she was intubated and connected to mechanical ventilation, and we did an early tracheostomy. Two months later, she started to recover slowly and we awoke, trying to facilitate to rest by night. Two [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:42+01:0014 November, 2017|
The task is not to remember everything but remember to act on the past. Memory is also a possibility of freedom - Matías Marchant. April 2016, Boston, Massachusetts, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of Brigham and Women´s Hospital: - “I am looking for Sharon Levine, ICU diary´s Project. My name is Maria Varela, a cardiac nurse from Santiago de Chile”. This [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:42+01:007 November, 2017|
Hola a todos, my dear friends. We are pleased again to share a new multicentric collaborative research coordinated by Proyecto HU-CI. Thank you all. The ahead of publication section of Medicina Intensiva has recently published the article Main information requests of family members of patients in Intensive Care Units, directed brilliantly by José Manuel Velasco. Because one thing is what we tell the [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:47+01:0017 October, 2017|
Hola a todos, my dear friends. A new editorial in Medicina Intensiva signed by one of the members of Proyecto HU-CI (Mari Cruz Martin) and Abelardo García de Lorenzo. In this paper, authors talk about the postintensive care syndrome (PICS) incidence in patients and families. Family is another vulnerable population and many times we forget them. Their quality of life [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:48+01:0026 September, 2017|
There is a traditional art called kitsugi or kintsukuroi in Japan, which repairs broken ceramic objects with a strong adhesive and gold, silver or platinum powder. The philosophy behind this technique is the belief that when the piece has suffered some damage, that is something that is part of its history. To repair it in this way means not only [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:49+01:0023 September, 2017|
Actually, a bundle implementation as a practice which improve quality and safety in the attention of critically ill patients is normal. Scientific evidence about the measures taken demonstrate statistically that bundles are positive. But, what makes bundle ABCDEF different from others? After participating for 2 days in an intense “ICU Liberation” course organized by the SCCM and Vanderbilt Medical Center and [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:49+01:0021 September, 2017|
Hola a todos, my dear friends. We share today the point of view published in Medicina Intensiva by our mates from the ICU of Hospital Universitario La Paz about outpatient clinics in ICU. A half of the patients admitted in ICU could suffer from post Intensive Care Syndrome, with physical, psiquiatric or cognitive sequels. In this article, authors explain how they have started [...]
