Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:50+01:0015 September, 2017|
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 Argentina a couple of days ago, where a review of the situation in Spain is published after the recent incorporation of Hospital Rey Juan Carlos [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:53+01:0013 September, 2017|
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 in Germany and a doctor in the United States. We are increasing knowledge about post-UCI syndrome and there is an increasing and general interest in [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:53+01:0012 September, 2017|
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 the evidence that patients feel anxious with their hands tied when they are lying on a bed in the ICU. And when you think about [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:55+01:0010 August, 2017|
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". This is a prospective single-center before and after study single in a thirty-one-bed medical-surgical ICU in Porto Alegre. All patients greater than or equal to 18 years [...]
Gabriel Heras2019-08-02T18:56:55+01:008 August, 2017|
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 to highlight and appreciate the work of our colleagues in Italy, especially Alessandro Morandi. Worldwide Survey of the “Assessing Pain, Both Spontaneous Awakening and Breathing [...]
