Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:46+02:005 February, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. José Manuel Gómez García began the week talking about burnout in ICU, and commented that, unfortunately, the data of incidence in Spain are unknown. We are talking today about an article by Carla Teixeira from the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency of the Hospital de Santo António do Centro Hospitalar do Porto [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:46+02:004 February, 2016|
In 1991, one of the many foreign residents living in the Costa del Sol (Malaga. Spain), Mrs Joan Hunt, with other British compatriots, contemplated the possibility of helping people who, looking for the kindness of our climate, decided to end their days surrounded by everything what they have longed and that because of a terminal illness, not culminate as they [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:46+02:003 February, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Recently I wrote a letter to the family of one of my patients, who unfortunately died despite trying everything. Life is curious and it seems that we are all connected in one way or another, because I had received something like the reply to that letter. Yesterday Eva´s husband came to see me. She [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:47+02:002 February, 2016|
Long time, "to be burned" at work could go from being a colloquial expression to become a major problem. Professional exhaustion indexes (or Burnout) in the Health collective are reaching frankly troubling levels, most likely for us who are dedicated to intensive care. We are more exposed to suffer the syndrome, or at least some of their symptoms and or [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:47+02:0030 January, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. You can not imagine what it means for me to write this post. The IC-HU Project is going to visit Bolivia, particularly in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, thanks to the Colegio Médico Departamental de Santa Cruz and its Scientific Committee, the Bolivian Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the Center of teaching and medical skills and thanks to our friends [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:47+02:0029 January, 2016|
Nowadays, many Intensive care units (ICU) remain restrictive visiting hours regimens. This decision is based on the following premises: 1. Difficulty to work with patients for the physician. 2. Interference in the work of nursing, the safety of the staff and workload. 3. The privacy of the patient, and adverse changes in the physiology.4. Constant information demand to physicians.5. Family [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:48+02:0027 January, 2016|
They made us a gift. One of those untouchables that are given with the heart and you receive with the soul and welcome with a smile. The nursing team had achieved good results, and they decided to share that incentive with a motivational talk for all the hospital staff. They invited Mikah de Waart (consultant, lecturer, and motivational Coach).At the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:50+02:0026 January, 2016|
Design is defined as the search for a solution in any field. The act of design is a complex, dynamic and intricate task: is the integration of social, economic and technical requirements, biological needs, ergonomics, psychological effects, materials, shape, color, volume and space, all designed and interrelated with the environment that surrounds users".Yes, this is our work. In addition, to [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:50+02:0023 January, 2016|
99 days I spent many days sedated, sleeping. The sleeping still exist, even our outside contact is interrupted. Occasionally there are signals, voices, a flash, a rubbing gives us a whiplash which we recognize from the depths. And we look for the exit. I was submerged in a sea of gelatin, clumsy arms, without enough strength to swin, I went [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:50+02:0022 January, 2016|
How an Intensivist ends putting a DVD player between the connection of perfusion pumps, extruders of the respirator and haemofiltration machine? All begins with a reflection: our aim is patients survive the ICU. Yes, but is cost? To overcome an ICU admission is a great biological wear in many cases, the recovery of physical sequelae also carries an important work, [...]
