About familes and roles at ICU
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today we want to share a recent article by Anna Aliberch and Isabel Miquel in Enfermería Intensiva. It´s a very interesting review about the need for the role of the [...]
The Venezuelan Health System, in intensive care
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Yesterday morning, my good friend Anibal sent me a video that we want to share with all of you. Today's post will not be the most watched of this [...]
Let´s talk about dying
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Although it is Saturday, I send mandatory duties today. We want to share with you all the TED talk Let´s talk about dying, by Dr. Peter Saul. In the [...]
The treatment was…Sebastian, by Alberto Del Castillo
Clinical trials of new treatments are published daily, and we are glad when one of these publications is our specialty-related thinking; "A new treatment that we can use".But we forget much simpler treatments. They could [...]
PRO – CON debate: Social Networks in ICU
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Recently, Belén Viloria sent me this image. Today we share it with the owners generous permission with the intention of generating debate among all.My first reaction was to think "This [...]
It is always possible to do something more, by Mari Cruz Martín
Really awesome the article published online last week in Annals of Intern Medicine: “Personalizing Death in the Intensive Care Unit: The 3 Wishes Project: A Mixed-Methods Study” by Dr. Deborah Cook and her team of [...]
Last Stand, by Wes Ely
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today, we reblog and translate with his permission a post by Dr. Wesley Ely, recently published in Pulse: voices from the heart of Medicine. For sure this article will let [...]
Doctor: if I die, I don’t want you to worry
- Intensivist on shift: "Prepare a bed to put a patient a BiPAP with acute lung edema".At the beggining, it was not a complicated admittance. After the anguish of the first moments, the patient had [...]
RISE: Peer Support for Caregivers in Distress
Hola a tod@s, my dear friendsToday we want to share the RISE (Resilience in Stressful Events) created by experts of Johns Hopkins. It is a training program that tries to take care of the second [...]
Physician burnout: can we make a difference together?
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.We keep talking about in the same way that yesterday (thank you so much, more than 1.600 page views to the post about ratios). It´s very important to care the [...]