Thank you to “our olders”. By Mimi Sancho
Anyone who knows me doesn´t be surprise if I begin this post with a proverb: "It is a trait of the high-born to be grateful". The unique claim of these words is to honor to [...]
The flame lights up Ecuador. By Carmen Segovia and José Carlos Igeño
Hola a todos: A few days ago we returned from Ecuador, where the IC-HU Project had been invited by Dr. Santiago Párraga to the II Internacional Course on Evaluation and Management of critically ill patient. [...]
Giving away Time. By Cristina Díez and José Manuel Gómez
Gregorio Marañón: "The best things of the world always have been made by the diletanttis, who make things by delight, love and not by obligation or routine." This week, in the Gregorio Marañón Hospital, the [...]
Argentina and Perú with the H
Hello a tod@s, my dear friends. Yesterday was a historic day for the humanization of Intensive Care. Two scientific societies, the Argentinean Society of Intensive Therapy (SATI) and the Peruvian Society of Intensive Care Medicine [...]
We sometimes heal…always take care and support. By Laura Sanz
It still sounds in my head that quote of Dr Diaz Rubio during my Grad Ceremony: “Doctors sometimes heal, but when we cannot, we must take care and support our patients. This is as important [...]
HUCI-CO Project: Dogs at ICU. By Rubén Castrillo
"Dog is man's best friend". How many times we heard this phrase, but only who has a dog knows that really is as well. My name is Ruben, I am 26 years old and I [...]
Respect to the privacy in ICU. By María Rojas
The main priority of the patients and families who suffer critical illness is recover the state of health, relegating to a second flat in the most of the occasions the emotional welfare, even their own privacy and in many [...]
Juana Penélope. By Sergio Sandes
The needles cross, superimposed, collide.Linking a strand and again, they cross. Two needles and a ball of wool gray. Gray as the sky of the bad omens. In her sixty two years Juana weaves, as [...]
Training Compassion
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. A couple of months ago and thanks to Enric Benito, I met Gonzalo Brito after have seen a talk in the last Congress of SECPAL. Gonzalo is from Chile, and [...]
ESCID: making pain visible
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Sometimes, people known and admire by me publish multicenter articles with much effort and work. And the truth is that one can´t leave smiling and feeling proud.Today we talk about Nacho [...]