Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:37+01:0011 March, 2016|
I have read a story that makes me thinking and feeling. A 90 years old woman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. And as any diagnosis, she received a proposal for a treatment: in this case surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Her doctors explained with meticulous the details, treatment and side effects. And at the end, the patient (Norma) said: "I'm 90 years old, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:37+01:0010 March, 2016|
Some months ago, I wrote a post in this blog pondering the possibility of speaking of humanizing Intensive Care Units (ICU) while we continue maintaining our patients tied. In that post I shared several ideas on which we should increase our level of knowledge before we fully unleash. It is difficult to propose successful measures if we do not know [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:37+01:009 March, 2016|
The ICU is one of the places of the hospital where family members live more suffering, especially when the prognosis are poor. Uncertainty is a feeling standing on the families of admitted patients in critical units, often influenced by variations in the situation of the patients. The absence of information and continuous communication with health professionals (doctors and nurses) makes [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:38+01:008 March, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Today we want to ask your help in a worldwide survey about the ABCDEF bundle. Oversedation, immobility, and delirium have serious implications for critically ill patients who are on mechanical ventilation. The ABCDEF bundle has been proposed to reduce these conditions and improve patient outcomes. The aim of the present survey is to explore [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:38+01:005 March, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos.Next March 7th-8th , Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (UPSA) is celebrating the festivity of the Health Sciences Universty (Degree of Nursing and Speech therapy).And therefore we are going to develop the IX Conference "Humanizing Health: A challenge for everybody". They couldn´t have chosen a better title. Tuesday March 8th , we will have the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:38+01:004 March, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos: A short but excellent new! The need for the Humanization of Intensive Care nor has gone unnoticed for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). After relevant contacts with the Ethics Section, #humaniza will be one of the points of the day at the next meeting of the group, to be held during [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:38+01:003 March, 2016|
In 1990, I like many others was distressed by the high tech low touch environment of practice in ICU. As I traveled around the US teaching critical care, I found that many had begun to act and had very creative ideas and solutions. To capture and build on them, we called for abstracts on 3 things: - How to bring [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:38+01:002 March, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos.After a very difficult task because of have received many suggestions, we present here the: Program of the II National Conference on Humanizing Intensive Care The conference is going to be held on May 26th and 27th may in Barcelona at Espai Pujades 350. As you can see, the Conference will start with the pre-Congress [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:39+01:001 March, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Last Sunday OKdiario published a new interview (only available in Spanish) with Cristina Cifuentes, President of Community of Madrid. To those who haven´t seen it yet, do not miss it (especially if you work with critically ill patients).Last September 2015, we were talking about her famous phrase, and we wrote the post "ICU: a [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:39+01:0027 February, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Thanks to Vicente Gómez, we return to talk about the post-ICU síndrome (PICS) after an article published in MEDPAGETODAY. Maurene Harvey is a nurse, and she was the first nurse to be the President of the American Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) in 2002. My thought is always the same: why we have two [...]
