The suffering crowd
They are easy to recognize. Normally they are many and you will see them at the time of the visits, which usually are two times a day, in the ICU waiting room, or in the [...]
One ring to rule them all: education in ICU palliative care
A letter with so strinking title has been recently published in Intensive Care Medicine, and it refers to another article commented in this blog by Bárbara Salas: Ten key points about ICU palliative care. Drs. Zante [...]
Death cafe: 3/23/17 #letstalkaboutdeath
Death Cafe is an organized discussion group about death without a closed indent or specific objectives. The purpose is promote social awareness of death from several points of view for rating life and breaking the taboo [...]
Human souls on fire but no burned: taking care of ICU professionals
The motto of Proyecto HU-CI "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire" alludes to the powerful force of human being committed to an objective, and points out a vision of [...]
A hospital like an alive tree
Lady Cilento (LCCH) is a children hospital in Brisbane (Australia), and its design proyect started with the join of the Pediatric Units of Royal and Mater hospitals to get LCCH as the reference pediatric center. To [...]
My life in three bags
Another morning in the Coordinating Center of Urgencies and Emergencies (CCUE). Dozens of calls per hour, a little or nothing friendly environment, less and less time to assume the call queue... All makes this still a more hostile [...]
Patient advocacy
Rights and duties of patients culture in Spain and active participation mechanisms have been increasing in recent times. Currently, we are facing one major challenge which consists on training professionals to defend the rights of [...]
Proyecto HU-CI releases new logo and image
Everything began with an interview to Gabi Heras I read. I had gone through a very hard experience in ICU (one ICU sometimes without H, sometimes with H, perhaps the least) to return home, and wandering [...]
#3JHUCI: humanising healthcare alltogether
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Today, Proyecto HU-CI is three years old...and really, nothing surprises me. I have sincerely believed that this was always possible. Three years to happend everything, and in those I [...]
A plan for improving the humanisation of intensive care units
Hola a todos, my dear friends February 14th 2017 has been an historic day for Proyecto HU-CI. Intensive Care Medicine, the journal of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), has published the article A [...]