AVANZAMOS: The Caring of Invisible
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. We are sharing today a recently published article (only available in Spanish) in the journal of Orden Hospitalaria de San Juan de Dios. You can also access here the digital version. [...]
The more information, the more human…What are we talking about? By Carles Calaf
This time, as I am getting ready for the debate about technology impact, along with Chema Cepeda due on the II National Conference on Humanizing Intensive Care, I'd like to put my techno human stories [...]
Refusing the treatment…or loving life! by Olga Rubio
I have read a story that makes me thinking and feeling. A 90 years old woman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. And as any diagnosis, she received a proposal for a treatment: in this case surgery, radiation [...]
Diving in the reality of the use of mechanical restraints in ICU, by María Acevedo
Some months ago, I wrote a post in this blog pondering the possibility of speaking of humanizing Intensive Care Units (ICU) while we continue maintaining our patients tied. In that post I shared several ideas [...]
Specialists in Care, by Carmen Díaz
The ICU is one of the places of the hospital where family members live more suffering, especially when the prognosis are poor. Uncertainty is a feeling standing on the families of admitted patients in critical [...]
Worldwide survey on the ABCDEF bundle
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Today we want to ask your help in a worldwide survey about the ABCDEF bundle. Oversedation, immobility, and delirium have serious implications for critically ill patients who are on [...]
Humanizing Health: a challenge for everybody
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos.Next March 7th-8th , Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (UPSA) is celebrating the festivity of the Health Sciences Universty (Degree of Nursing and Speech therapy).And therefore we are going to develop [...]
#humaniza, in European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos: A short but excellent new! The need for the Humanization of Intensive Care nor has gone unnoticed for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). After relevant contacts [...]
An Era of Enlightenment, by Maurene Harvey
In 1990, I like many others was distressed by the high tech low touch environment of practice in ICU. As I traveled around the US teaching critical care, I found that many had begun to [...]
Program and application for II National Conference on Humanizing Intensive Care
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos.After a very difficult task because of have received many suggestions, we present here the: Program of the II National Conference on Humanizing Intensive Care The conference is going to [...]