Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:53+01:0020 September, 2016|
Hola a todos: A few days ago we returned from Ecuador, where the IC-HU Project had been invited by Dr. Santiago Párraga to the II Internacional Course on Evaluation and Management of critically ill patient. Mamen Segovia and José Carlos Igeño were this time who went to Quito to talk about this #benditalocura (holy madness) which humanization is. And we [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:53+01:0017 September, 2016|
Gregorio Marañón: "The best things of the world always have been made by the diletanttis, who make things by delight, love and not by obligation or routine." This week, in the Gregorio Marañón Hospital, the project of humanization in which we have been working since last October has been made official. Nearly a year of work has gradually been growing [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:53+01:0016 September, 2016|
Hello a tod@s, my dear friends. Yesterday was a historic day for the humanization of Intensive Care. Two scientific societies, the Argentinean Society of Intensive Therapy (SATI) and the Peruvian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SOPEMI) have endorsed the IC-HU Project. Thus become the fourth and fifth Scientific Societies that support this #benditalocura (holy madnes), and encourage us to follow on [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:54+01:0015 September, 2016|
It still sounds in my head that quote of Dr Diaz Rubio during my Grad Ceremony: “Doctors sometimes heal, but when we cannot, we must take care and support our patients. This is as important as healing could be”. Last night life taught me something new. Life…an my box 18 ICU patient, Madame R. After a few days in the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:54+01:0014 September, 2016|
"Dog is man's best friend". How many times we heard this phrase, but only who has a dog knows that really is as well. My name is Ruben, I am 26 years old and I am a nurse of the ICU of the Hospital Moisés Broggi of Sant Joan Despí, and I have a dog. Three year ago I was [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:54+01:0013 September, 2016|
The main priority of the patients and families who suffer critical illness is recover the state of health, relegating to a second flat in the most of the occasions the emotional welfare, even their own privacy and in many cases, accepting that they can´t choose in their "role" of sick persons. Disease threatens two fundamental pillars of human dignity: privacy and autonomy. The dependence [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:54+01:0010 September, 2016|
The needles cross, superimposed, collide.Linking a strand and again, they cross. Two needles and a ball of wool gray. Gray as the sky of the bad omens. In her sixty two years Juana weaves, as all her life she did it. When she is asked what she is weaving the response leaves without delay: "A scarf for him, for when he wake up" Beside [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:55+01:009 September, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. A couple of months ago and thanks to Enric Benito, I met Gonzalo Brito after have seen a talk in the last Congress of SECPAL. Gonzalo is from Chile, and he is a clinical psychologist clinical that expanded his training in the Compassion and Altruism Research and Education of the school of Medicine of the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:55+01:008 September, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Sometimes, people known and admire by me publish multicenter articles with much effort and work. And the truth is that one can´t leave smiling and feeling proud.Today we talk about Nacho Latorre, from the ICU of Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, and for sure about all the collaborators from 20 Spanish ICU of 14 Hospitals that [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:55+01:007 September, 2016|
In our work, there are many occasions that we must establish communication with the patient's family, in order to inform about the future care of the patient or to assess the status. Surely, many of us have could observe and even participate in an ineffective communication with families, in many occasions fruit of them prejudices and interpretations performed by professionals [...]
