Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:08+02:007 July, 2016|
Some time ago, @Humanizar_salud asked the question: "What´s humanize for you?" and I wanted to respond, but it is so much that it didn't fit me in a tweet. The first time I heard the word "humanize" I was eight years old. My father had a heart attack and the nurse that took care of him didn´t look at him [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:08+02:005 July, 2016|
The provision of care in the intensive care unit (ICU) is based on extremely innovative technology and cutting-edge techniques, often prioritizing the delivery of aggressive treatment to manage the disease while neglecting the human dimension of the patient. However, in recent times there has been a surge in the introduction of Palliative care in the ICU, which is the focus [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:11+02:002 July, 2016|
In the wall of the box 6, opposite the bed, there is a photo of a Little girl, about three or four years old dressed with the typicall clothes of Madrid, with her dress, her shawl, her headscarf and a carnation. She looks funny in the camera, half side, with hands on hips. She looks at each one who comes [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:11+02:001 July, 2016|
The Real Spanish Academy of Language (RAE) defines "Humanize" as "Making something or someone having a look or nature human or showing influence of humans, or confer a more human character (in a moral sense), doing something nicer or less rigorous". If it is a term defined and so well explained by the RAE, why do not we humanize the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:12+02:0028 June, 2016|
Liver function: “The liver is a solid víscera that ...”Luis. His daughter. After two days of birth: familiar progressive intrahepatic cholestasis . Alagille síndrom.Luis and his family are castilians: their solution in Madrid. - "Your daughter needs a new liver." - "Can I donate her a part of mine?"A blessed echocardiography puts another challenge on the road: atrial septal defect. [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:12+02:0025 June, 2016|
I'm Julia, psychologist internal resident. A few weeks ago I joined the service of the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia to start my training and I bring good news. These new days have been exciting, and I never would have imagined that in my first meeting with the staff of Psychology would appear within the points of the day an [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:12+02:0023 June, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.The first fruits of Foro Premios Albert Jovell are coming, where as you know the IC-HU Project was the protagonist thanks to "The Revolution of Emotion" and at the awards ceremony.That´s why Tonight, at 7 pm at the Ateneo de Madrid will take place the ceremony of the IV Albert Jovell Awards by the Spanish [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:12+02:0022 June, 2016|
It doesn´t look like an Hospital! That's what the first patient told when they visited the new Day Center of Oncology and Hematology Pediatric of the Hospital Materno Infantil Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona. When we are going to receive a treatment, we are nervous and afraid. But our experience can improve if we find ourselves in an attractive, friendly, warm, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:13+02:0021 June, 2016|
In all the world, much is been talking about "Music in the ICU", something very crazy not far away, no even imagine. And it is a wonderful thing. Many efforts are made to bring the beauty of music to our ICU, because music accompanies us in conscious or unconscious way throughout our life, even before out birth. In a difficult [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:13+02:0018 June, 2016|
Published in The Wall Street Journal on June 17th, 2016 “A swimming pool in the ICU? You must be nuts.” The nurse’s voice was almost lost amid the whooshing ventilator and infusion pumps. Five days earlier, we had admitted Bennie, a Vietnam veteran, to the intensive care unit of our VA hospital in Nashville, Tenn. Frail and wrinkled, he had [...]
