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 [...]
About prolongued mechanical ventilation and wills
Eduardo Serra has just sent the article "Determinants of Receiving Palliative Care and Ventilator Withdrawal Among Patients With Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation" published in Critical Care Medicine. Until this article, no study has ever explored the [...]
The common denominator
Every ICU is different. All those who work or have any experience there (patients and families, health managers) know it. And this difference not only concerns its size, architecture, benefits, type of patient attended, but [...]
Duna and Kaa can enter the Hospital
In the last years, national and international newspapers are echoing to visits and animal-assisted therapy (AAT) that are being implemented in different hospitals in Spain. Thus, one could read an article in La Voz de [...]
Implementing early physical rehabilitation and mobilisation in the ICU
Intensive Care Medicine has recently published the article "Implementing early physical rehabilitation and mobilisation in the ICU: institutional, clinician, and patient considerations. This is a multidisciplinary work developed by a physiotherapist in Australia, a nurse [...]
I will take care of you and your rest
Friday night shift. As a usual thing, patients ' lesson for this doctor. This time: the dilemma was on untied hands. I can use a lot of words: tied, fastened, immobilized. Anyway, science has already given us [...]
Extended ICU visitation model reduces delirium and ICU stay
Hola a todos, my dear friends. Critical Care Medicine has just published another very interesting article. From Brazil comes "Effectiveness and Safety of an Extended ICU Visitation Model for Delirium Prevention: A Before and After Study". [...]
Worldwide survey of the ABCDEF bundle
Hola a todos, my dear friends. We are honored to share a new publication, this time in Critical Care Medicine. Proyecto HU-CI has participated collaboratively with great professionals from many countries, and we would like [...]
Allergy to emotions
When Pepa was informed that, due to the complications, she would be admitted in ICU from the ward, she told the health care professional that was attending she was afraid. The answer she received was: [...]
The intensive care delirium research agenda: a multinational, interprofesional perspective
Hola a todos, my dear friends. We have much to celebrate during all this intense 2017, so we will be giving space to all the joys that brings #humaniza. And one of this great news [...]