Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:04+01:002 September, 2014|
Empathy seems to me one of the basic skills in the Humanization of Health. But, what is empathy?. Surely we could discuss much about the different definitions. Put in the role of the patient, something beyond understanding, try to learn and put the other´s shoes...and how is taught or how can we learn?. If we have never had an urinary [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:04+01:0030 August, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: Yesterday I had the fortune to know personally one of the persons in Spain that has most knowledgeable about communication in critical situations. Constant smile and exquisite service, she taught me the headquarters of the National Organisation of Transplants and introduced me to the team with a normalcy that made me feel as at [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:05+01:0029 August, 2014|
Visit in the ICU are in fashion. At least an increase of interest about the subject is verifiable. But we are probably retarded in these aspects in the ICU, because in many cases we continue to maintain restrictive policies introduced in the last century. Policies that do not support a deep discussion with the same archaic arguments which were used [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:05+01:0028 August, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amig@s. Music is part of our lives, that is an irrefutable fact. We like it, it distracts us, helps us, calm us, it brings back memories. There is not a single day that we don't listen it in one way or another. Published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2013, the article Effects of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:05+01:0027 August, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. More joys. We are still meeting new people within Spain and all over the world. And a great little treasure is right nearby, in the Hospital Universitario San Juan de Alicante.For many years, in this Center has been created a hospital Humanization Commission as the rest of the commissions, with their records and their projects, [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:05+01:0026 August, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: Several months ago, Dr. Cliff Reid gave an awesome speech in Social Media And Critical Care (SMACC) about a quality of which many of us are not even aware and we use almost daily in our welfare work: The cognitive resilience. I was so impressed with his talk, so Oliver Flower (www.intensivecarenetwork.com) and IC-HU Project worked again together for editing [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:06+01:0023 August, 2014|
Take Risk in Everything, because WE CAN!! Atlético de Madrid - Spain Super Cup Champion 2014
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:06+01:0022 August, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: Today IC-HU Project wants to give the widest possible diffusion to an event that we cannot miss: European Listening and Health Conference that is going to take place in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) from 30 to 31 of October, 2014. During a two day live conference , will be showcasing and promoting listening in healthcare by presenting research, sharing [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:06+01:0021 August, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: Today the blog wants to serve as a megaphone to help our partners and friends of Anestesiar.org. Dr. Eugenio Martínez Hurtado, from Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor de Madrid has contacted me to spread and participate in the INTRAQUEAL study, a controlled clinical randomized multicenter study that wants to compare the classic direct laryngoscope Macintosh [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:01:07+01:0020 August, 2014|
"The day I discovered that I could make it better I was working. Specifically, I was cleaning the skin of a man who was in a coma, and I did it as usual, trying to doing with the same attention and detail that dressmakers do when preparing a suit of rhinestones. At that time, some colleagues came into the room [...]
