Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:28+01:0014 April, 2016|
A 79-year-old man was treated at his home for chest pain. Acute myocardial infarction code was triggered and he was transfered to an hospital in a medicalised helicopter. He went through cardiac hemodynamic study which objective occlusion of the right coronary artery, placing an stent with optimum result. He was admitted in the ICU and within hours persisted with low [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:30+01:0012 April, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos. Next April 14th will be held the second OPEN SPACE HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE from the Duth Group Family And Patient Centered Intensive Care (FCIC). We have a close friendly relationship and international collaboration and our objectives are common . Day after day, professionals are more aware of the impact that an ICU stay generates [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:30+01:008 April, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Next Wednesday April 13th we are flying towards Galician lands for the first time since the creation of this project, although I already anticipate that in the coming months we will return several times. We will participate in the 21st Conference of the Universitary Nursing School of Lugo, which this year is entitled "Exchanging experiences [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:31+01:007 April, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Yesterday I had the opportunity to participate in the Collaborative Laboratory for the patient´s empowerment organized by Impact Hub Madrid.A busy day of work, but with a quite different forms we usually do at the ICU. First of all, freaking out with a spacious, friendly and colorful place that invited subjectively to good manners. [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:31+01:006 April, 2016|
39 year old, and life puts ahead a tough test. After 28 days of desperate fight for life, coming back from hell: fear, distress, anxiety... There is no medication that can control his despair. Or maybe yes?. His wife comes into the box, takes his hand and stays with him, no need to talk about. After many hours without sleep, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:31+01:005 April, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Next Wednesday, April 6th, this project will attend its first Collaborative Laboratory for Patient´s Empowerment which will take place in Impact Hub Madrid. Patient empowerment is a change of attitude, technology and, also, the health system. Would it be possible to enable the patient to participate from inside the health care system, and even [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:31+01:002 April, 2016|
99 days As being in Wonderland, everyday objects are transformed into oracles of imposible geometries in the space of the ICU. What an air conditioning grille was, is suddenly shown as a hieroglyph which we have to guess whether we want to stay alive. Always, that fear of staying alive, to not fall into the wrong box and disappear, swallowed by quicksand in [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:32+01:001 April, 2016|
Extreme poverty, lack of work, and unrequited love, are probably the paths to the loss of dignity. But if those are the paths, a disease is the motorway that leads more quickly to that same destination. Illnes put us in the absolute defenselessness. Bows us, makes us dependents. We lose our strength and many times our decision making capacity. The [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:32+01:0031 March, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos.On May 2015 took place in Madrid the 1st Conference on values: Humanizing Health Care, in which this project had the chance to collaborate. "On the other side of the piyama" is a beautiful and passionate event with realized by last year students of the School of Nursing of Complutense University. During the meeting, they [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:32+01:0030 March, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos.It´s really a pleasure for me introduce a book that for sure we will give much to talk about: Through the Valley of Shadows Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human Dr. Samuel Brown is the autor. He is Assistant Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at [...]
