Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:51+01:0020 January, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Today we want to talk again about implementing palliative care in IC-HU, thanks to the article recently published in Intensive Care Medicine, the journal of the European society of intensive care (ESICM): "Prospective study of a proactive palliative care rounding intervention in a medical ICU" that comes from the United States. There, 20% of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:51+01:0019 January, 2016|
In all Health disciplines are taught subjects related to empathy and communication. No matter if you are nursing assistant, technician emergency, nurse or physician, during the training period firmly believe that patient´s diseases are not only Physiology, and to recover professional and also the person behind the uniform is needed. Currently, we observe impassively what the feeling of a patient [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:51+01:0016 January, 2016|
We were very busy that morning. Four days ago a traffic accident led us to admit multiple trauma patients in the ICU. That morning, two of these, and a venerable old lady, like a providential gift will be discussed, offered a whole host of supreme acts. I introduce you the main protagonists. Mohamed, Kurdish, 33 years old, living in Germany, multiple trauma stabilized and [...]
Gabi Heras2016-11-26T22:48:20+01:0015 January, 2016|
Last June we started the first collaborative research project collaborative of IC-HU Project in order to discover and prioritize the main informational demands of family members of patients admitted to ICU. More than 150 ICU professionals offered to participate and contribute in it, representing 66 ICU in Spain and many others throughout the world. For operational reasons, we started in [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:51+01:0014 January, 2016|
It was at Christmas time, a few years ago.I was a first-year resident learning in Nephrology. As each day the dialysis room was full. There were people of all ages, older but also young people, connected to the dialysis machine. The hours passed there connected to life. Some of the patient were isolated from the rest and listened to music, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:51+01:0013 January, 2016|
After watching the interview with Alfonso Bassave and Gabi Heras (only available in Spanish), there are many things to reflect. More that interview, it was a conversation of two human beings, two professionals speaking "defenceless" of feelings and emotions. An idea has not stopped turning in my head. A word was repeated on several occasions during the conversation: FEAR.Of course [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:52+01:0012 January, 2016|
Communication is an essential tool for health professionals but we don´t always give the value and attention it deserves. In the case of the assessment of pain, verbal communication with the patient is the key, thus the oral report or self-report of the level of pain by the patient is considered the gold standard for the evaluation. Most of the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:52+01:0010 January, 2016|
Sepsis code, stroke code, polytraumatism code, AMI code...The countdown begins, time is life!. And the clock is our worst enemy, our oppression. Time leads us to use quick protocols which paralyses the reflection, in an override of the thinking and human feeling. We stop to be doctors, health professionals and become protocols machines. And I understand it... Health System is [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:52+01:007 January, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.We start this year with the illusion and magic of opening gifts of Santa Claus (The Kings in Spain), pure emotion. 2016 promises to be an intense year. And that joy also flooded hospitals, and the ICU. Many stories have left these days, and we want to collect some of them.In the IC-HU of Hospital [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:52+01:0030 December, 2015|
2016 begins, again with the customs, the promises we make to ourselves, the review of those 365 days we have just leave. Also in the space alien to time which the ICU is, the New Year comes and the aims and wishes have their hollow. Let us to participate of this, toast with us, with our families, among you, congratulate [...]
