Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:57+01:0011 December, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Today we recommend you the TEDxRíodelaPlata by Dr. Matías Najún, "Living until diying". "Where life becomes blurred, where only the care and affection, where a gesture in time, a well thought out remedy or the opinion of those who know can make the end of the road more bearable for one and their circumstances. [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:57+01:0010 December, 2015|
In the ICU of Hospital de Barcelona we have been 26 years working with an open regime of visits during the hours of the day (10:30 AM to 22 PM) and perhaps it´s time to step forward and allow the entry of the family by night.For us it is not a worthwhile, we have not had to adapt to a [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:57+01:009 December, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Just published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, today we coment the article "Using Technology to Create a More Humanistic Approach to Integrating Palliative Care Into the Intensive Care Unit", signed by Christopher E Cox and J. Randall Curtis, thanks to Drs. Vicente Gómez and Wesley Ely. A decade ago, the main [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:58+01:008 December, 2015|
Dear friends: Hospital San Juan de Dios de Córdoba has just reached 80 years.Hospitality is the supreme value of the Orden Hospitalaria de San Juan de Dios around the world for centuries. Hospitality includes quality, respect, responsibility and spirituality. The concept of hospitality translates into a virtue or quality which consists of treating well and with kindness to others. The [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:58+01:005 December, 2015|
Chronic fatigue related with long hours of work is common in the ICU and this phenomenon is aggravated by acute fatigue related to the night shift and the sleep deprivation. The intensivists are faced with arduous night shifts throughout their career, with a need for thinking and decision-making efficient and fast. This is something that probably everyone understands, without being [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:58+01:004 December, 2015|
These letters simply seek to approach you, embrace and accompany. Because everything was very fast and we barely had time. I just want to tell you that the night your father died, all the team were there. You were beside his bed. We were at your service. Nothing ended after I communicated the bad news and we thought he was [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:58+01:003 December, 2015|
What happened at the University Carlos III of Spain a few days ago and immersed fully election campaign (talk - discussion - conversation between two rising young politicians), evidence of intellectual gaps extend to our ENTIRE society, which come from a progressive devaluation training and the disappearance of HUMANITIES. While recognizing that one of them had never read Kant, (coinciding with [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:58+01:002 December, 2015|
From the IC-HU of Hospital Infanta Margarita of Córdoba, we present our project of humanization. With a lot of enthusiasm and with no less effort, it starts in December this adventure, commitment and why not? This dream. The need for humanization arises today in many areas, but it is in the Healthcare System where perhaps the most delicate [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:01+01:001 December, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Last stop of this magic and crazy year of talks arround Spain, Portugal and Colombia. And we do it in Madrid. A year to change the story, as we published on January 2nd, with many surprises thanks to you. But this reflection will be another post for the end of the year. This time we [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:01+01:0029 November, 2015|
The phone is ringing. 03:48 AM. "Sorry Felix, I am Bea. I am calling you from the Emergency Room Observation. The 061 has just brought a 73 year old patient with chest pain and ECG similar than another made a month ago. He had and acute myocardial infarction eight years ago. He has moderate efforts dyspnea, good compliance with medication [...]
