Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:08+01:0024 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Our recent trip to Oporto to the Jornadas de Medicina Intensiva da Primavera is giving the first fruits. We are extremely grateful to our Portuguese friends, who made us feel as at home and have been interested in the IC-HU Project massively.Irene Aragão and Ana Guerra, from the ICU of the Hospital de Santo Antonio do Porto want to share [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:09+01:0023 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today we share the news recently published in Medscape Critical Care, about an article of Surgery journal: Eye-Tracking Devices may help ICU Patients Communicate, especially those who receive mechanical ventilation and who cannot speak. The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has conducted a pilot study in 12 patients, all of whom werw capable of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:09+01:0022 October, 2015|
This month, the Spanish Society of Intensive Care, Critical medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) has opened a new section on its website devoted to patients and their families. Under the title "A look inside the ICU", SEMICYUC aims to provide scientific and quality information, in equal measure, as usually does for professionals in Intensive Care Medicine, allowing patients and their [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:09+01:0021 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. A couple of weeks ago we enjoyed with our friends of Hospital San Juan de Alicante, where we were talking about "Humanizing Intensive Care in the process of dying" (this talk will be available in Spanish as soon as possible in this blog on pdf format). One of the attendees at the Conference was [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:10+01:0020 October, 2015|
Look at this picture. Do you know what this space is? You are right! This is the Alfred Hospital ICU in Melbourne.I look at this picture and I see a wonderful space: bright, spacious, very well distributed, with very clean lines, where predominantly white color reflects cleaning while the wood of the great central volume gives a touch of warmth [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:10+01:0017 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Next week on road to Porto, to the Jornadas de Medicina Intensiva Da Primavera, organized by the Hospital de Santo António do Centro Hospitalar do Porto. A tremendously evocative title: "Where we are and where are we going?" that also is the title of the opening conference, by Dr. Jean-Louis Vincent.And a program that will focus [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:10+01:0016 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.We are sure that Chema Cepeda will be happy: If someone in Spain talks about it is him: "Technology will advance health always if we apply it in a suitable and person-centered context".He explains it in his post "Humanism in health and approach technologies" (only available in Spanish): Is technology the only responsible of the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:10+01:0015 October, 2015|
Those who were lucky enough to share a little time with the great Mamen Segovia will never forget her formula for health counselling: REA. She breaks down to perfection and which is basically a balanced dose of: Respect Empathy Authenticity Three magic words that taken to the reality lead to extraordinary results. Mamen also talks about the high [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:13+01:0014 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. One of the actions of improvement proposed by the IC-HU Project is to recover the narrative for the Health.IntraMed partners offer a free online workshop in Narrative and Medicine from October 19th to November 30th (only available in Spanish). The proposal of linking Medicine and Narrative tries to bring new conceptual tools and cognitive [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:13+01:0013 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Next Friday October 16th is the European Restart a Heart Day .To celebrate this great event, The First Conference on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Simulation will be carried out at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid. It is a multidisciplinary workshop to highlight one of the fundamental techniques that the entire population should know.We want [...]
