Ailín and Mauricio got married…in the ICU
The Intensive Care Unit, a very curious place: human being above all, health and well-being... and humanity, that great little detail, a bit of side. Perhaps maybe because of the concentration and fine pulse that [...]
Our second home
Intensive care units are spaces where there is a fast and furious rhythm work and this causes stress to healthcare professionals. There are many factors that cause it, and one is the environmental and physical [...]
Between Life and Death
I am always hearing about this of humanizing the ICU but until tonight I didn't know what was. Yesterday, I had to go for my work to ask for the situation of a person admitted in the ICU of La [...]
Science and Philosophy of the ABCDEF bundle
During this week, the 46th Critical Care Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine has been held in Hawaii. Much has been said in networks on topics closely related to #humaniza, but one of them has [...]
Héctor opened the doors of the Spanish Pediatric ICU
My name is Esther, I am Héctor´s mommy. When he has a month of life, we received the news that no parent ever wants to hear: he had a very serious disease, without a cure, and was [...]
Just a word?
Last month, in The temptation of giving up we talked about how appear from Humanization numerous possibilities for feeding the engine of action that is the internal "motivation" . Gratitude is one of those possibilities, which is more than [...]
Virtual reality to improve cognitive alterations in ICU
More than 30 percent of patients who survive an episode of critical illness presents brain alterations that go beyond those of the disease that has led to the admission to intensive care (ICU). As a result [...]
Economy and ICU Humanisation
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. A very interesting reflection was initiated yesterday from Colombia. Arturo Arias raised the following: "It is true that humanising is an spreading strategy throughout the world, but there are certain details that [...]
The power of love
On 2013 April 2nd, I felt a severe pain in the abdomen. I went to two clinics and to a hospital, and all under the same diagnosis -tear - they prescribed me anti-inflammatory drugs. April 3rd I was [...]
New Guidelines for Family-Centered Care in the Neonatal, Pediatric, and Adult ICU. “Open the door, baby”
A few days ago we saw in the networks a post of Arturo Arias in which he said textually "Little by Little we are opening more the doors of my H-ICU... and I wonder: How we were able of having them closed [...]