To care is human…What about caring the caregiver?
New England Journal of Medicine has recently published the article To Care is Human- Collectively Confronting the Clinician- Burnout Crisis. This publication describes the alarming problem of burnout among health care providers. Burnout generates depression [...]
The Society of Critical Care Medicine endorses Proyecto HU-CI
Hola a todos, my dear friends. Let´s celebrate one more time! We want you to join us! The Council of America Society of Critical Care Medicine officially granted yesterday its endorsement to Proyecto HU-CI, becoming [...]
Would we start talking about physical restraints in our ICU?
Let´s celebrate!. A high impact journal as Intensive Care Medicine, starts talking in What’s new in Intensive Care about the use of physical restraints (PR) in critically ill patients. Perhaps it could sound rare to affirm that [...]
The healing power of light
ML was admitted in ICU six months ago with a severe Guillain-Barre syndrome. We knew she would stay many days with us since the beggining The first day she was intubated and connected to mechanical ventilation, [...]
ICU diaries: narrative without borders
The task is not to remember everything but remember to act on the past. Memory is also a possibility of freedom - Matías Marchant. April 2016, Boston, Massachusetts, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of Brigham [...]
Main information requests of families in ICU
Hola a todos, my dear friends. We are pleased again to share a new multicentric collaborative research coordinated by Proyecto HU-CI. Thank you all. The ahead of publication section of Medicina Intensiva has recently published [...]
Surviving ICU: looking through family’s eyes
Hola a todos, my dear friends. A new editorial in Medicina Intensiva signed by one of the members of Proyecto HU-CI (Mari Cruz Martin) and Abelardo García de Lorenzo. In this paper, authors talk about [...]
The beauty of scars
There is a traditional art called kitsugi or kintsukuroi in Japan, which repairs broken ceramic objects with a strong adhesive and gold, silver or platinum powder. The philosophy behind this technique is the belief that [...]
When Humanisation in the clue of a bundle
Actually, a bundle implementation as a practice which improve quality and safety in the attention of critically ill patients is normal. Scientific evidence about the measures taken demonstrate statistically that bundles are positive. But, what [...]
Are outpatient clinics justified in intensive care medicine?
Hola a todos, my dear friends. We share today the point of view published in Medicina Intensiva by our mates from the ICU of Hospital Universitario La Paz about outpatient clinics in ICU. A half of the patients [...]