Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:12+01:0028 March, 2017|
There are increasingly more Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) that involve the family in the care of the newborn. But lack of space is one of the main problems encountered in the units when carrying it out. To provide a family of "their space", a place where to enjoy intimacy and privacy can turn completely the hard experience as it passing through [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:12+01:0022 March, 2017|
Hola a todos, my dear friends. Today we are talking about a very interesting open Access article in Intensive Care, published by Drs. Gerritsen, Hartog and Curtis about existing evidence on families-ICU relationship. There is a global trending awareness of the importance family members in the ICU, and the authors point out four reasons why everyone should be incorpórate the relatives in the therapeutic [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:12+01:0021 March, 2017|
Hola a todos, my dear friends. We continue giving steps beyond the introduction of Yoga and Mindfulness in hospitals as a self-care tool for everyone: patients, families and professionals. In recent decades, the terms Yoga and Mindfulness have been integrating and spreading gradually up to become part of our society as two of the most effective tools to reach a [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:15+01:0018 March, 2017|
They are easy to recognize. Normally they are many and you will see them at the time of the visits, which usually are two times a day, in the ICU waiting room, or in the nearby corridors. They huddle by groups, and if you get close to them you will hear them repeating the "visit pass", in an understanding and [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:17+01:0025 February, 2017|
Another morning in the Coordinating Center of Urgencies and Emergencies (CCUE). Dozens of calls per hour, a little or nothing friendly environment, less and less time to assume the call queue... All makes this still a more hostile environment. Much technical language doesn´t help: platform, protocols, key resources, TETRA, GIS, GPS... just allow to recognize the human being to the other side of [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:22+01:0015 February, 2017|
Hola a todos, my dear friends February 14th 2017 has been an historic day for Proyecto HU-CI. Intensive Care Medicine, the journal of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), has published the article A plan for improving the humanisation of Intensive Care Units , which can be read for free in the following link. In the article we explain the [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:25+01:0028 January, 2017|
I am always hearing about this of humanizing the ICU but until tonight I didn't know what was. Yesterday, I had to go for my work to ask for the situation of a person admitted in the ICU of La Paz in Madrid. When I left the elevator it seemed to me that I was on the 200th floor more than in the first. I am used [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:25+01:0027 January, 2017|
During this week, the 46th Critical Care Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine has been held in Hawaii. Much has been said in networks on topics closely related to #humaniza, but one of them has had special importance. At the same time of the event, Critical Care Medicine has published "The ABCDEF Bundle: Science and Philosophy of How ICU Liberation Serves [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:25+01:0026 January, 2017|
My name is Esther, I am Héctor´s mommy. When he has a month of life, we received the news that no parent ever wants to hear: he had a very serious disease, without a cure, and was so affected that he would not survive a year... His first year was crazy, a struggle against the clock, but we were winning battles. Our true [...]
