Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:48+02:0026 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+02:0023 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+02:0021 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 [...]
Gabriel Heras2017-11-06T10:04:33+02:0019 September, 2017|
Eduardo Serra has just sent the article "Determinants of Receiving Palliative Care and Ventilator Withdrawal Among Patients With Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation" published in Critical Care Medicine. Until this article, no study has ever explored the willingness to receive palliative care or terminal withdrawal and the factors influencing willingness As all of you know, patients receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) typically [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:50+02:0016 September, 2017|
Every ICU is different. All those who work or have any experience there (patients and families, health managers) know it. And this difference not only concerns its size, architecture, benefits, type of patient attended, but also its organization, management, human resources ... So, in our country, we have medical, post-surgical, coronary or trauma ICU, for example. Not all of them [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:50+02:0015 September, 2017|
In the last years, national and international newspapers are echoing to visits and animal-assisted therapy (AAT) that are being implemented in different hospitals in Spain. Thus, one could read an article in La Voz de Argentina a couple of days ago, where a review of the situation in Spain is published after the recent incorporation of Hospital Rey Juan Carlos [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:53+02:0013 September, 2017|
Intensive Care Medicine has recently published the article "Implementing early physical rehabilitation and mobilisation in the ICU: institutional, clinician, and patient considerations. This is a multidisciplinary work developed by a physiotherapist in Australia, a nurse in Germany and a doctor in the United States. We are increasing knowledge about post-UCI syndrome and there is an increasing and general interest in [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:53+02:0012 September, 2017|
Friday night shift. As a usual thing, patients ' lesson for this doctor. This time: the dilemma was on untied hands. I can use a lot of words: tied, fastened, immobilized. Anyway, science has already given us the evidence that patients feel anxious with their hands tied when they are lying on a bed in the ICU. And when you think about [...]
