Day 3 #CuidadosPaliativosIntensivos (Palliative-Intensive Care): What about kids?
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. In the middle of the week #CuidadosPaliativosIntensivos (Palliative-Intensive Care), from the Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús in Madrid, Dr. Alberto García Salido share with us the editorial Pediatric Palliative Care: The Oppinion [...]
#CuidadosPaliativosIntensivos (Palliative-Intensive Care): The Unit of the Humanization of Healh Center
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Within the week #CuidadosPaliativosIntensivos (Palliative-Intensive Care) and to settle a pending account, today I want to share with you a guided tour by the Unit of Palliative Care of the [...]
#CuidadosPaliativosIntensivos (Palliative-Intensive Care)..Is it possible?
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: This week, just past The World Day for Palliative Care, we want to launch a new week of awareness and debate. for which we ask you to share the [...]
About how to inform and Ebola
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Everyone is talking and saying things about ebola virus. Yesterday, a friend from Argentina sent me a message: "Gabi, when are you publishing a post?". Of course as everyone [...]
The death of the patient for the birth of the person
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Shocking article in Forbes about the paradigm change in attention in what is known as "patient-centered care model".Of course, The Death of the Patient: Moving from 'Healthcare' to 'Health' and 'Patient' [...]
Breaking Bad News: The Baile-Buckman Protocol
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today I share with you an article published in 2006 in Medicina Intensiva, which although it might seem old 8 years later, is completely valid and for me it is also essential.In "Breaking [...]
Learning to accompany, by José I. Ricarte
One of the many issues that we can consider in the accompaniment is what to say or what to do while we are doing just that: accompanying.Doubts and fears assail against the silences or pauses. [...]
Medicine: a vocational career full of frustrations
Hola a tod@s, my dear Friends: Yesterday, Héctor G. Barnés published in El Confidencial his article: Los trapos sucios (y los agobios) de la profesión médica, según un doctor de EEUU (Dirty laundry (and the hassles) [...]
Conscience with Science
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Yesterday, I read a marvellous post by Dr. Salvador Casado, Lo peor de la Soledad es la desconexión (The worst of loneliness is the disconnection). Without a doubt, I recommend [...]
End-of-Life Care: Communication & Role of Nurses
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Published in ESICM web, the article "South African critical care nurses' views on end-of-life decision making and practices." (Nursing in Critical Care, 2013) talks about the results of a [...]