We have to knock down the ICU walls
This is the beggining of the interview published by Diario médico on April 6th 2015, to Dr. Andrés Carrillo, Head of ICU Department at Hospital Morales Meseguer in Murcia. He talks about a management [...]
From the other side of the pyjama: Humanizing Health Care
The change in the clinical relationship demand healthcare workers a plus in providing quality care. The knowledge, technical skills and the training received, should be always accompanied by a human quality.Thus, one of the most [...]
The IC-HU Project wins #HospitalOptimista Award
Hello everybody, my dear friends.We did it!Yesterday, at the Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe in Valencia and with more than 300 people, The IC-HU Project: Humanizing Intensive Care was awarded with the first prize in [...]
Always look at the bright side of life, by Meritxell Tapia
My alarm-clock sounds and I weak up plenty of satisfaction, happiness, and full of life. This is priceless.The day of Saint Jordi there was an inflection point in the ICU of the Broggi Hospital.But to [...]
Human Tools: from Aragón to Chicago!
Last weekend I had the opportunity to represent to the IC-HU Project in the 13th Cinema and Health 2015 Awards. In Zaragoza, we show our first film "Human Tools", within the category of Assets for [...]
Variability among ICU in managing patients with preexisting limits on Life-Sustaining therapies
Hello everybody, my dear friends.Today Iñaki Saralegui share with us the following article recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine: Variability Among US Intensive Care Units in Managing the Care of Patients Admitted With Preexisting Limits [...]
My ICU days, by Marina García
July 9th 2014: I open my eyes...I can´t move my hands, body-wide pain is unbearable, something out of my throat and I am not at home. I don't know where I am or what time [...]
Humanization will open the National Congress of San Sebastián
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.As many of you know, in June from 14th to 17th will take place in San Sebastian the 50th National Congress of the Spanish Society of Intensive, Critical Medicine and [...]
Fine-tuning the partnership with ICU families
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today we want to share with you Involvement of ICU families in decisions: fine-tuning the partnership, a recent review of Dr. Elie Azoulay with open access in Annals of Intensive [...]
40 days for the National Conference on Humanization
Hello everybody, my dear friends. Just 40 days for the 20th National Conference of humanization: "Humanizing Intensive Care", and this is an update of practical information. First of all, to communicate to you that [...]