ICU: a branch of hell?
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Today we make an exception in our holiday break to share great news with you. Intensive Care Medicine has just published on line another article signed by IC-HU Project members: [...]
See you soon!
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Again on holiday in this space, wanting to charge batteries for what comes up in the next months. You have the list of activities already planned until the end of [...]
How to Teach Doctors Empathy
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today we talk about a very interesting opinion article published in The Atlantic, with a devastating headline: "Being a good doctor requires an understanding of people, not just science." Although [...]
Music therapy, a refuge in the ICU
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Many times we have spoken on this blog about the inclusion of music in the ICU, source of benefits for patients without side effects.In the pain management, for the anxiety in [...]
Spirituality in Health Care
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Surprisingly, in the last few months, different scientific journals with high impact on the scope of ICU are publishing articles about the care in which the word spirituality is [...]
Expanding the concept of Palliative Care, by Mari Cruz Martín
Palliative Care traditionally have been taking care of patients with terminal diseases, whom a comprehensive care in the final phase of life is offered. Perhaps that is the reason why despite to be considered a [...]
Don´t worry: you think and I will listen to you, by Natalia Salgueiro
Imagine.Just imagine for a moment that you can not move. Your body lies inert on a hard surface.You can hear, you see, sometimes you connect with your around... but others you do not. Back to [...]
Permission to die
Today, we recommend a reading that Dr. Daniel Flichtentrei (IntraMed Medical Director, the medical community of Latin American Internet website) shares with all of us. "Permission to die," is full of stories about "death with [...]
Physicians also suffer
Hello everybody, my dear friends.The #MásPlazasPIR platform shared last week a very interesting new published in diario.es: "Cantabria recorded 46 cases of young physicians attended by mental health problems and addictions in 2014".The Medical Organization [...]
Surviving ICU: Do we think in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
When we admitte a patient at one of our Intensive Care Units, in the majority of cases, our main goal is that he/she will survive. It is something almost intuitive to an intensivist, mainly in [...]