Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:34+01:0017 July, 2015|
As a patient he was there, looking at a fixed point, impressed to see and hear ten people talking about and surrounding him ... But they do not ask anything.His fastidious pneumonia had become something strange that sounded as "collapsed", and that worsens, so he was admitted at ICU. He had an intense suffocation and he couldn´t sleep. He was [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:34+01:0016 July, 2015|
Have you realized that you need contact with nature and green spaces?.Surely you know that it is a vertical garden, or perhaps you have a mini urban garden at home where you've planted some vegetable or herb. You have incorporated into your vocabulary words like sustainable, eco-friendly, or you like to buy plants and flowers for your home.It's something that [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:34+01:0015 July, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amig@s. After a few days of rest and refuel, we come back harder than ever.The second half of this 2015, a year that will change the history, comes very very entertaining and in line with the first half: full of activities that keep generating consciousness.Yesterday leapt on social networks one of the early surprises [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:35+01:004 July, 2015|
Hello everybody, my dear Friends. Today I begin holiday time, so this space will pause for a few days. But we didn't want to go without giving you a gift that comes from the South. From the ICU of Hospital San Juan de Dios de Córdoba, Dr. José Carlos Igeño explains what is an H-ICU. As the video is so good, we got [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:35+01:003 July, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.I want to show the next picture just published in Intensive Care Medicine, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine journal: It was sent to the journal by Julie Vavuris, a Medical-Surgical ICU nurse in California. One of her patients wrote it while she was in a proof of spontaneous ventilation waking up from sedation [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:35+01:002 July, 2015|
I have always tried to control this reaction, overcoming what seemed to be a sign of weakness, insecurity... But, the truth is what my tears express, often deaf and invisible, is a deep respect, respect for life and respect for death, pain and suffering, respect for the profession. To this reflection I did not get by myself, like almost all things [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:35+01:001 July, 2015|
In the ICU there are often "particularly critical" situations, such as sudden death, the attempt of autolysis, traffic accidents, the donation of organs in brain death and other situations of conflict between relatives or need to communicate bad news.In these cases, the psychological support by professionals can help a more appropriate management of these difficult situations between the relationship ICU [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:36+01:0030 June, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. From the ICU of the Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, doctors Carlos Chamorro and Miguel Angel Romera give us their point of view in the journal Medicina Intensiva. We want to share a small summary of the article. From common sense and science we can carry out the corresponding actions of improvement in this field [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:36+01:0026 June, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. From the blue of the sea and holiday rest, Dr. Alfredo Serrano (@alfchus) send us a very interesting article, which talks about communication between hospital doctors and patients in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.In theory, from Bioethics and papers, is recommended to establish concrete plans of action and discuss with the patient the realization of cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers if [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:39+01:0025 June, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.From Intramed, the translated article Dying with dignity in the ICU signed by Deborah Cook and published in New England Journal of Medicine just a year ago is being shared via twitter.A must read. Today we rescue the ABCD of the Dignity-conservation of care (Chochinov adapted): The attitudes and assumptions may affect the practice. Reflect [...]
