The patient-family unit. By Carlos Martorell
In our work, there are many occasions that we must establish communication with the patient's family, in order to inform about the future care of the patient or to assess the status. Surely, many of [...]
Management and control of ICU burnout syndrome
Hola a todos, my dear friends.We start September with the first of many invitations. After the presentation of the Humanization Plan of Intensive Care Units of the Community of Madrid, a serie of training activities [...]
Ten key points about ICU palliative Care. By Bárbara Salas
Intensive Care Medicine has just published an interesting short article, in which Drs. Jeffrey D. Edwards (Columbia University), Louis P. Voigt and Judith E. Nelson (Memorial Sloan Kattering Cancer Center, New York) summarize ten key [...]
Towards the humanized and integrative ICU. By Federico Carini
In the last Congress of Argentinean Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SATI) held in Salta, there was a gale of news. A difference from previous years, news came not only from classical areas of intensive [...]
Skin. By Raquel Nieto
99 days The skin prepared, warm between the sheets. The body quiet, waiting. The breathing rhythm, deep. The lover doesn´t arrive, looks like to appear but he isn´t shown. The memory of the touch of [...]
The ICU Walk Protocol in English
Not so far ago, we share in this blog the post The ICU Walk Protocol. We promised you to translate into English the protocol, and here it is: The ICU Walk Protocol (free download) We hope [...]
The power of Word in the ICU. By Mariana Pedace
The Intensive Care Unit is one of the services where the more intense events could be lived in a Hospital. The state of health of the patients is critical. The family experiences heartbreaking sensations and [...]
Looking at the invisible: The IC-HU Foundation in Colombia
Today, a nurse studente asked me in the morning shift: - "What is the humanization of Intensive Care?". I thought during a second and I have replied: "Look, how is it possible that we (as [...]
The step from an ICU to an IC-HU
Last year I wanted to know your opinion, needs and suggestions regarding infrastructure and spaces in the ICU. After asking to the professionals Vicente Gomez Tello and Laura Diaz, to the ex-patient Jose Luis Diaz [...]
One year later: Mónica Ferrero interviews Vicente Gómez
If yesterday we shared the experience of Laura Diaz on the evolution and the humanization in the spaces of her ICU, today we are going to know the experience of Vicente Gómez Tello. Vicente is [...]