Respected dignity. By Concha Zaforteza
These days, the letter published in The New York Times by the writer Peter DeMarco has become viral. It is dedicated to the professionals of the ICU who cared for his wife the last week [...]
Uncertainties…By José Ramón Garmendia
I usually say in my clinical practice that "It´s better a bad certainty that the best of the uncertainties...", mainly by the anxiety and uneasiness that doubt, indecision and dilema create. Our own uncertainty. When [...]
There are noises that we can´t avoid, but we can control them. By Roi Arias
According to an European study made in collaboration with the Swedish Universities of Gothenburg and Borås, patients admitted in intensive care units are subject to levels of noise that exceed the recommended by the WHO for [...]
Living well until the end
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos. Today is October 8th, and we celebrate the Worldwide and Hospice Palliative Care Day, and although I'm not very friend of "The global day of...", we all should be [...]
Nursing at the end of life. By Laura Caccianini
Although death is part of life, it does not leave of be a hum that transits the daily hospital turning in something that we intend to avoid because it faces to us the flavor of [...]
The first living room of the Spanish ICU. By Mónica Ferrero
A few months ago I did a proposal to improve the stay of families in the ICU: "Changing waiting rooms for living rooms" The Hospital Universitario de Torrejón and the IC-HU Project got in [...]
The IC-HU soundscape
Hola a todos, my dear friends. Noise maybe is something invisible in the ICU. And although we have spoken of it here or here, I have the feeling of that we have last of tiptoe, [...]
The family in the ICU of adults. By Ana Bejarano
I believe that the first step is to understand that despite we are human beings we are not always humanized, because humanize is a mode of being, living, interacting, growing us, moving us and traveling [...]
Extremis: Facing the Final Decision. By Javier Martínez Sárria
It is brave to tackle a topic as death in a documentary, which has ceased to be a part of our everyday experience (but not in our destiny, what else we would like!). Our culture [...]
The IC-HU Proyect: all the colours
In the IC-HU Project (Humanizing Intensive Care) we are independent, passionate and have one thing very clear: our goal is to help making health care more kind for people and health environments the more livable [...]