Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:58+01:0016 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: Published on July 2014 in Nursing in Critical Care, the Journal of British Association of Critical Care Nurses, our mate and member of IC-HU Network Concha Zaforteza and her team talk about a fascinating topic. Families of critically ill patients have unmet needs that are not being addressed. Lack of attention to these needs is related more to the ICU [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:58+01:0013 September, 2014|
Patients who survive sepsis still remains a long way after their discharge from ICU. A large number of these survivors will present post-ICU syndrome, which includes sequels:- Physical: both by atrophy muscle functional disabilities such as nerve damage (polyneuropathy or myopathy of the critically ill patient), loss of body mass (cachexia, atrophy), problems swallowing or speaking, generalized weakness with limited capacity [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:59+01:0012 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear Friends. Today ends the week of #UciSinSujecciones and I didn't want to finish it without bringing you a review article on the subject.Published in 2007 in Nursing in Critical Care, the journal of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses , the article The use of physical restraint in critical care talks about this ítem. The abstract begins: "Critically [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:59+01:0011 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Yesterday I had the possibility to meet in person the Center of Humanization of the Health, which is located in Tres Cantos, Madrid. It is a Center endorsement by Community of Madrid and that performs assistance work, palliative care, and teaching. In IC-HU Project we already knew that they are a reference and we had disseminated [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:59+01:0010 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: We continue with the week of #UciSinSujecciones (ICU free of restraints) and the truth is that we are delighted with the debate generated in the networks. At the moment, as well as the support and dissemination of colleagues Dr. Salvador Casado, Nightingaleandco, and so on, enfermeritico.com and nuestraenfermeria.es have been published content about this ítem in their blogs and from here we say thank [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:00+01:009 September, 2014|
Many years since the famous paper “to err is human” evidenced the impact and the significance of the medical aid associated risks. Therefore, many resources have been destinated to reduce unnecessary risks and improvement of the patient’s safety. Even the science advances about patient’s safety and the achievements in some specific areas, we are almost already far from reaching our [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:00+01:008 September, 2014|
Hello a tod@s, my dear friends:IC-HU Project begins the specific activities to call everyone to action, with a measure in which we need your participation and interaction: #UciSinSujecciones We ask you that, in all of Spain and the rest of the world, remove the ICUs mechanical fasteners to your patients, and share a photo in our @HUMANIZALAUCI twitter account or Facebook Group HUMANIZANDO [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:01+01:005 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Today we make diffusion of an article published in the latest issue of Enfermería Intensiva, the Journal of the Spanish Society of Intensive Nursing and Coronary Units, SEEIUC.From the ICU of the Hospital Universitario de Álava in Vitoria, the authors present us what professionals think about visiting in ICU.Despite the publications concerning and the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:01+01:004 September, 2014|
Javi is a great intensivist. In size and in person. He is a good friend and awesome intensivist. Javi´s mother dies in the icu box. Both of them know, look at their eyes and know it. They try to comfort each other, they speak in whispers, they know that they have a few words that say and few looks to [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:01+01:003 September, 2014|
Passengers of our lives, a trip through the time full of all kinds of events, some expected and others unexpected.Untouchables face to problems that produce us so much fear to be protagonists of them, that we become unconscious beings, invaded by a mechanized society full of appearances and rush... no time to breathe, nor reflect, without time to observe and [...]
