Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:15+01:0018 March, 2017|
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 nearby corridors. They huddle by groups, and if you get close to them you will hear them repeating the "visit pass", in an understanding and [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:16+01:009 March, 2017|
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 and Schefold from Bern University Hospital ICU, pose to the authors a necessary reflection given the characteristics that differentiate ICU from the palliative care outside ICU. [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:16+01:007 March, 2017|
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 of all death concerns. Death Cafe model was developed by Jon Underwood and Sue Barsky Reid, based on the ideas of Bernard Crettaz. Since 2011 almost 4000 [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:16+01:003 March, 2017|
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 the humanisation of health where the care of the professional can not be missed, because the team is the agent of this process of humanisation. [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:17+01:0028 February, 2017|
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 meet the design, architects studied how hospitals were thought from the 1980s to the present day. After that study, they concluded that the design was [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:17+01:0025 February, 2017|
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 environment. Much technical language doesn´t help: platform, protocols, key resources, TETRA, GIS, GPS... just allow to recognize the human being to the other side of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:18+01:0023 February, 2017|
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 patients in different governmental sectors of health and sanitary institutions, both nationally and internationally. In this context, the Instituto Albert J. Jovell de Salud Pública [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:22+01:0021 February, 2017|
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 in the internet, I went into that mirror that was for my that interview. I was deeply thrilled by the project, resounded in my every [...]
Gabi Heras2017-11-06T10:07:59+01:0016 February, 2017|
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 have had the luck to meet thousands and thousands of people: all of you. Three years to make the revolution a reality in the ICU [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:57:22+01:0015 February, 2017|
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 plan for improving the humanisation of Intensive Care Units , which can be read for free in the following link. In the article we explain the [...]
