Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:55+02:007 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 [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:55+02:006 September, 2016|
Hola a todos, my dear friends.We start September with the first of many invitations. After the presentation of the Humanization Plan of Intensive Care Units of the Community of Madrid, a serie of training activities for professionals organized by the General Direction of Coordination of Citizen Care and Humanization of Health Assistance of the Community of Madrid will take place, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:56+02:003 September, 2016|
Intensive Care Medicine has just published an interesting short article, in which Drs. Jeffrey D. Edwards (Columbia University), Louis P. Voigt and Judith E. Nelson (Memorial Sloan Kattering Cancer Center, New York) summarize ten key points on the provision of palliative care in the intensive care unit (ICU). They argue that, to ensure the best care in the ICU, palliative [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:56+02:002 September, 2016|
In the last Congress of Argentinean Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SATI) held in Salta, there was a gale of news. A difference from previous years, news came not only from classical areas of intensive care such as shock, acute distress respiratory syndrome or sepsis, but we saw the appearance of humanizing intensive care on the scene and the increasingly [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:56+02:001 September, 2016|
99 days The skin prepared, warm between the sheets. The body quiet, waiting. The breathing rhythm, deep. The lover doesn´t arrive, looks like to appear but he isn´t shown. The memory of the touch of another, drawing in the body worlds invented by both, known by none. The weight of the own body and its solitude, accompanied by the breath [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:56+02:0031 August, 2016|
Not so far ago, we share in this blog the post The ICU Walk Protocol. We promised you to translate into English the protocol, and here it is: The ICU Walk Protocol (free download) We hope you find it useful.Best regards,Dr. José Carlos Igeño CanoHead of Emergency and ICU. Hospital San Juan de Dios de CórdobaMember of the IC-HU Research Project
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:59+02:0030 August, 2016|
The Intensive Care Unit is one of the services where the more intense events could be lived in a Hospital. The state of health of the patients is critical. The family experiences heartbreaking sensations and professionals must take decisions extremely complex under pressure of time and difficulty. Anguish, pain, uncertainty, the voltage is present at the corridors of the ICU [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:59+02:0019 August, 2016|
Today, a nurse studente asked me in the morning shift: - "What is the humanization of Intensive Care?". I thought during a second and I have replied: "Look, how is it possible that we (as human beings), who in addition care another human beings (we are not descendants of Zeus or anything like that), we have now to stop, to [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:59+02:0018 August, 2016|
Last year I wanted to know your opinion, needs and suggestions regarding infrastructure and spaces in the ICU. After asking to the professionals Vicente Gomez Tello and Laura Diaz, to the ex-patient Jose Luis Diaz and to the family member Manuel López I was very surprised because people with different perspectives have the same opinions: privacy for the patient, natural [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:59+02:0017 August, 2016|
If yesterday we shared the experience of Laura Diaz on the evolution and the humanization in the spaces of her ICU, today we are going to know the experience of Vicente Gómez Tello. Vicente is an specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at Hospital Universitario Moncloa, moderator of the module 2: Are technology, structure and humanization compatible? in the II National [...]
