Bringing Humanized Intensive Care to Iran: The HU-CI Model in Action
Every ICU tells a story. Behind every patient is a person with individual needs, a family seeking reassurance, and healthcare professionals striving to provide the best possible care. Humanizing intensive care means recognizing these human [...]
In search of quality of Life: ERAH-PICS Study
The aim of follow-up and support programs for critically ill patients who suffer from post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) is the repair of the sequelae that appear as a consequence of their stay in an intensive [...]
The Intensive Care Unit at Tunbridge Wells Hospital, the first in UK to receive HUCI-AENOR certification
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Tunbridge Wells Hospital has become the first in the UK to receive the prestigious HU-CI and AENOR Certification of Good Practices in Humanization of Intensive Care, setting a benchmark [...]
Attention: we are recruiting researchers for the worldwide prevalence study of delirium
Delirium is a common complication of pediatric and adult patients in hospitals and other settings, estimated up to every fourth till sixth patient can be affected by delirium. The hyperactive form of delirium is well [...]
Available in English the Manuals of Good Practices to Humanise ICU and Emergency Departments
Dear friends and colleagues: Thanks to the Chair of Humanisation of Health Care, the translation into English of the Good Practice Manuals in Humanisation of ICU and Emergency Departments has been carried out. As always, [...]
Prevalence and risk factors for delirium in critically ill patients with COVID-19
Lancet Respiratory Medicine has just published online the international collaborative research Prevalence and risk factors for delirium in critically ill patients with COVID-19 (COVID-D): a multicentre cohort. This is a work of the COVID-19 Intensive [...]
Humanizing Intensive Care: From Theory to Practice
Great news from the United States of America! Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America has dedicated its number of June 2020 to Patient and Family Experience in the ICU. Our admired and beloved Judy [...]
Urgent: recruitment for Delirium COVID-19 Study
As many of you are observing day by day (and yesterday this was a topic discussed in the second H-Webinar of the HU-CI Project on post-ICU syndrome), we have the feeling that COVID-19 affected patients [...]
Humanizing Intensive Care: Toward a HumanCentered Care ICU Model
Coinciding with the 49th Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine has recently published in its March issue our article Humanizing Intensive Care: Toward a Human-Centered Care ICU Model, for free [...]
ICU diaries: Looking for the missing pieces… #HealingWords
“Reading what happened to me has incredible value. It is very hard, but it is important to know it happened. I need to understand that it took place in order to continue. After all, it's [...]