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 [...]
From Utopia to Reality: First ICU certified in Humanization
Next December 11th, 2019 will be a day for the history of the humanization of intensive care units: the ICU of Infanta Elena University Hospital of the Public Health System of the Community of Madrid [...]
Eight things we would never do regarding end-of-life care in the ICU
The article Eight things we would never do regarding end-of-life care in the ICU has been recently published online in Intensive Care Medicine, in What´s new in Intensive Care section. It´s signed by Ely, Azoulay and Sprung. Authors [...]