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Families in ICU: the evidence of what is obvius

2019-08-02T18:57:12+01:0022 March, 2017|

Hola a todos, my dear friends. Today we are talking about a very interesting open Access article in Intensive Care, published by Drs. Gerritsen, Hartog and Curtis about existing evidence on families-ICU relationship. There is a global trending awareness of the importance family members in the ICU, and the authors point out four reasons why everyone should be incorpórate the relatives in the therapeutic [...]

Yoga & Mindfulness in your hospital

2019-08-02T18:57:12+01:0021 March, 2017|

Hola a todos, my dear friends. We continue giving steps beyond the introduction of Yoga and Mindfulness in hospitals as a self-care tool for everyone: patients, families and professionals. In recent decades, the terms Yoga and Mindfulness have been integrating and spreading gradually up to become part of our society as two of the most effective tools to reach a [...]

The suffering crowd

2019-08-02T18:57:15+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 [...]

One ring to rule them all: education in ICU palliative care

2019-08-02T18:57:16+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. [...]

Death cafe: 3/23/17 #letstalkaboutdeath

2019-08-02T18:57:16+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 [...]

Human souls on fire but no burned: taking care of ICU professionals

2019-08-02T18:57:16+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. [...]

A hospital like an alive tree

2019-08-02T18:57:17+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 [...]

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