Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:49+01:0014 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: This week, just past The World Day for Palliative Care, we want to launch a new week of awareness and debate. for which we ask you to share the hashtag #CuidadosPaliativosIntensivos. (Palliative-Intensive care). It was a success thanks to your help the campaign #UciSinSujeciones (ICU free of restrains), so here we go! About the half of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:50+01:0010 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Everyone is talking and saying things about ebola virus. Yesterday, a friend from Argentina sent me a message: "Gabi, when are you publishing a post?". Of course as everyone else, I follow the information and for sure as many of you sometimes I can not give credit to statements of people who supposedly should [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:50+01:009 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Shocking article in Forbes about the paradigm change in attention in what is known as "patient-centered care model".Of course, The Death of the Patient: Moving from 'Healthcare' to 'Health' and 'Patient' to 'Person' is one of those readings that make us thinking. Source: Dennis Robbins, Ph.D, M.P.H. Here a small overview:"As patients, we are passive, vulnerable, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:50+01:008 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Today I share with you an article published in 2006 in Medicina Intensiva, which although it might seem old 8 years later, is completely valid and for me it is also essential.In "Breaking bad news in medicine: strategies that turn necessity into a virtue" by F. García Díaz, from Critical Care and Emergency Room Service of the Hospital General [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:51+01:007 October, 2014|
One of the many issues that we can consider in the accompaniment is what to say or what to do while we are doing just that: accompanying.Doubts and fears assail against the silences or pauses. We need a conversation or an activity with which to fill that space.In this we can learn a lot from animals. I am sure that [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:51+01:004 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear Friends: Yesterday, Héctor G. Barnés published in El Confidencial his article: Los trapos sucios (y los agobios) de la profesión médica, según un doctor de EEUU (Dirty laundry (and the hassles) of the medical profession, according to a U.S. doctor). It seems to me that it is a must read."I have become the kind of doctor [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:51+01:003 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Yesterday, I read a marvellous post by Dr. Salvador Casado, Lo peor de la Soledad es la desconexión (The worst of loneliness is the disconnection). Without a doubt, I recommend enjoy and learn it (only available in Spanish).He talks about something that many of us begin to glimpse, something that when you see, you can [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:51+01:002 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Published in ESICM web, the article "South African critical care nurses' views on end-of-life decision making and practices." (Nursing in Critical Care, 2013) talks about the results of a survey of ICU nurses in South Africa. The purpose of the study was to describe end-of-life decision making experiences and practices. The study finds that [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:52+01:001 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. As you know, is taking place in Barcelona the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) congress. One of the initiatives that are being conducted, thanks to Life Priority and with the support of the Spanish Society of Intensive, Critical Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) is the Train with Destination LIFE. During a train trip, interested travelers receive a [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:52+01:0030 September, 2014|
Hello everybody, my dear friends: Recently I published in this blog the post Transforming Healtcare Through the Power of Listening , to inform you that from 30 to 31 October is going to celebrate the European Listening and Health Conference (ELAHC) in Nijmegen (The Netherlands). I thought that inscription fee were too expensive from someone from Spain, so I applied a [...]
