Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:00+02:0016 August, 2016|
It is very important to take care of the spaces. To design them we must know very well the needs so we colect lots of information to project them. Last year I did a serie of interviews to find out your opinion about spaces and infrastructure in the ICU: current status, needs, and suggestions.To do this, I asked to professionals [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:00+02:0012 August, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.We are going next week to Argentina, to the 26º Congress of Argentinean Society of Intensive Care. In September, Carmen Segovia and José Carlos Igeño will go to Quito (Ecuador), to participate in the "II International Course of Evaluation and Management of the Critically ill patient". This course will be held from September 1st to [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:00+02:0011 August, 2016|
During the years of existence of the IC-HU Project, we have promoted differents ways to humanize the intensive care units. An of them stands out because breaks especially with the established rules: the walks out the ICU with the patients. At this point that might be a bit controversial, I would like to make two points: what are the rules? [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:01+02:0010 August, 2016|
Today I want to share a reflection that aims to make an observation and simultaneously share experiences from an ICU team that since a time are applying the lines of the IC-HU Project, whose main objective is offer safety, quality and more human Intensive Care.After observing several instances of relatives and patients in the ICU who has expanded visitation policies, has been implicated them in the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:01+02:009 August, 2016|
-" Why don´t we ask her what she prefers?".With this phrase we ended the conversation. For fifteen minutes, their daughters and I had been trying to decide what would be the best for Carmen. Carmen was an adorable old woman of almost eighty years old who had been admitted in the ICU a few days ago. A single criticism or [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:01+02:005 August, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos. Last week was published in Intensive Care Medicine a new article by the IC-HU Project about restricted visitation policies for children in adults ICU.Yoana Skrobik, from Canada, was surprised after reading the article, and she sent me an email with her opinion. She has let me share it. In the end, everything depends on where [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:01+02:004 August, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos. As you know, last week we ask your collaboration in the survey about the current situation of Humanization of your ICU. We have received 136 forms from ICU of 20 different countriesWe will share step by step the results.To those 136 people, I sent by e-mail the Humanization Plan of ICU created for the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:02+02:003 August, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.Next destination of the IC-HU Project: Argentina. We have been invited as speakers in the 26º Congress of Argentine Society of Intensive Care Medicine which is going to be held in Salta. This is the premilinary program. We have the pride and honor to talk in four sessions: Thursday, August 25th Bioethics Room 1010:00 - [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:02+02:002 August, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos.We share today with you the Humanization Plan of the ICU in the Community of Madrid, a reproducible and exportable model for any ICU in the world. The plan is the result of the work during nine months of a group of 42 people (patients, families, ICU professionals and others areas -computer experts, architects, designers-) [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:05+02:0029 July, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos. A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Lic. Mª Isabel Morales, a pediatric and neonatal intensive care nurse. She is Venezuelan, but lives and works in Cordoba (Argentina).And she shared a reflection after reading the post Children under...not admitted by Ángela Alonso, that is going to be published soon as a [...]
