IC-HU Project in New York, thanks to The Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. I want to share a great happines and a great surprise with everybody. Today, seven months after start the Blog, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation published today a post I [...]
Factors limiting and facilitating changes in caring for the intensive care unit patients’ relatives.
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: Published on July 2014 in Nursing in Critical Care, the Journal of British Association of Critical Care Nurses, our mate and member of IC-HU Network Concha Zaforteza and her team talk about a fascinating topic. [...]
Humanizing sepsis, World Sepsis Day 2014
Patients who survive sepsis still remains a long way after their discharge from ICU. A large number of these survivors will present post-ICU syndrome, which includes sequels:- Physical: both by atrophy muscle functional disabilities such [...]
The use of physical restraint in critical care, a review
Hola a tod@s, my dear Friends. Today ends the week of #UciSinSujecciones and I didn't want to finish it without bringing you a review article on the subject.Published in 2007 in Nursing in Critical Care, the journal [...]
More heart in the hands
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Yesterday I had the possibility to meet in person the Center of Humanization of the Health, which is located in Tres Cantos, Madrid. It is a Center endorsement by Community [...]
Influence of Physical Restraint on Unplanned Extubation of Adult Intensive Care Patients
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: We continue with the week of #UciSinSujecciones (ICU free of restraints) and the truth is that we are delighted with the debate generated in the networks. At the moment, as well as [...]
The Science of Security of patients and the great challenge: their participation
Many years since the famous paper “to err is human” evidenced the impact and the significance of the medical aid associated risks. Therefore, many resources have been destinated to reduce unnecessary risks and improvement of [...]
Towars an #UciSinSujecciones (ICU free of mechanical fasteners) , por Conchi Faura
Hello a tod@s, my dear friends:IC-HU Project begins the specific activities to call everyone to action, with a measure in which we need your participation and interaction: #UciSinSujecciones We ask you that, in all of Spain [...]
Open door intensive care unit: View of the professionals
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Today we make diffusion of an article published in the latest issue of Enfermería Intensiva, the Journal of the Spanish Society of Intensive Nursing and Coronary Units, SEEIUC.From the [...]
What I want to hear at the end of my life, by elenfermerodelpendiente
Javi is a great intensivist. In size and in person. He is a good friend and awesome intensivist. Javi´s mother dies in the icu box. Both of them know, look at their eyes and know [...]