Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:22+02:0015 March, 2018|
Medicina Intensiva has recently published the article Application of a mindfulness program among healthcare professionals in an intensive care unit: Effect on burnout, empathy and self-compassion. Mates from the ICU of Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron held a clinical session/workshop on the practice of mindfulness and its usefulness. The possibility of following an 8-week training program with specifically designed short guided practices supported [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:25+02:0010 March, 2018|
Some things are so obvious, that often go unnoticed or we forget them. Critical Care Medicine has just published an excellent revision titled Interprofessional Care and Teamwork in the ICU. It underlines the importance of multidisciplinary work in the modern ICU, putting in value the role of each member of the team and including patients and families in the center [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:25+02:007 March, 2018|
"Doc, now I am leaving the ICU... are you going to follow me in the ward?" "No, no, I am just the intensivist, we are the doctors who are in the ICU. In the ward you will be visited by another doctor" This is how it works. And not only in the ward. We usually don´t know about our patients [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:26+02:001 March, 2018|
When she told me about her ICU stay, I was surprised with her first phrase: "That ICU, you know, was scary". Fear? I know that ICU and it´s not scary, it´s new and is quite well. She tells me that she was not treated badly at any time, but that ICU was very much scary for her. Her eyes are [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:26+02:0027 February, 2018|
In a recent article by Kompanje, “Burnout, boreout and compassion fatigue on the ICU: it is not about work stress, but about lack of existential significance and professional performance”, three syndromes are described that can have the same result in health professionals: loss of the sense of work, demotivation for daily work, and apathy and lack of compassion for patients [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:27+02:0022 February, 2018|
Although RESPECT and DIGNITY are intuitive concepts, little formal work has addressed their systematic application in ICU. So, Samuel Brown an a multidisciplinary group of relevant experts have done a review of the literature and collaborative discussions focused on the practice of Respect in ICU. The article has been recently published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care. Findings include: [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:27+02:0020 February, 2018|
When a patient is admitted in the ICU, family members want to stay with this relative and know how he/she is. The information about the patient evolution is an encounter between family and staff. This encounter is essential for families, and we should humanize the enviroment where it happens, because: Patient has the right about confidentiality of the state of [...]
