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Zombies get out from TV by Jose Sesmero

2019-08-02T19:01:15+01:0023 July, 2014|

Colloquially and figuratively, "Zombie" has been used traditionally in addition to the revived "dead" to refer to that task or entity that carries out its work in a mechanical way as if you were deprived of your will.  In the health sector, we recognize three types of events that we quickly identified as harmful to bring to fruition the process [...]

Measuring the satisfaction of patients admitted to the intensive care unit and of their families

2019-08-02T19:01:16+01:0022 July, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Recently published in the online version of Medicina Intensiva, Dra. Holanda and the companions of Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla ICU  presents the following article.The objective of the study was to know the degree of satisfaction of patients and their families during their stay in the ICU, in a period of 5 months. In [...]

Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care

2019-08-02T19:01:18+01:0018 July, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.  Here it is the second surprise of the week, thanks to the neonatologist Susana de las Heras and fellow of the  Medicine University of Alcalá.   This video belongs to the Cleveland Clinic, one of the four best hospitals in the United States and internationally known in many specialties including Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.  One [...]

Keep calm…because I don´t care (Part I), by Verónica Rojas

2019-08-02T19:01:18+01:0017 July, 2014|

I am a nurse who was born and developed in an ICU.In this time of work, I have understood that these units are small "Islands" within the hospitals, and despite the crisis in health (independent part of the world in which we find ourselves) intensive units tend to have better staffing personnel, a little more of resources and a bit [...]

Angels without wings

2019-08-02T19:01:19+01:0016 July, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: I have the immense pleasure to share with you the video of Álvaro Garmuz "Angels without wings", about the work in the Burned ICU of  La Paz University Hospital, in Madrid. Probably many of you shared it yesterday. I contacted via vimeo with Álvaro to ask permission to edit the video and put subtitles [...]

Psychological support for the emergency professionals

2019-08-02T19:01:19+01:0015 July, 2014|

Hola a todos, my dear friends. Some weeks ago, Pedro Martín-Barrajon, health psychologist and coordinator of the Group of Linkedin Psychology of urgencies and emergencies, Emergencies Spanish (AEM) 112 Madrid Association, with more than 2000 followers, published an excellent paper on psychological support to professionals in the emergency. Psychological support to the professionals of emergency, by Silvia Esteban, Unai blacksmiths, Maitane [...]

Staff Levels and Patient Mortality

2019-08-02T19:01:19+01:0010 July, 2014|

Hola a todos, my dear rogué From European Society of Intensive Care website, a very interesting review article is shared. They talk about staff levels and patient mortality. The investigators hypothesised: 1-Higher numbers of nurses on the ICU establishment will be associated with lower rates of patient mortality. 2-Higher numbers of consultants in an ICU will be associated with lower [...]

The stroke of the 380: the absence of humanism

2019-08-02T19:01:20+01:009 July, 2014|

Hello my dear friends. A few days ago I received and e-mail from Juan Manuel Leyva Moral, he is Nursing Lecturer and International Coordinator at Escola Superior d’Infermeria  del Mar in Barcelona (Spain). He told me about his experience on his father’s bedside when he died at the hospital two years ago after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. From the horrible [...]

Hugs and healthy hearts

2019-08-02T19:01:20+01:008 July, 2014|

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends:Last week, Dr. Odile Fernández (www.misrecetasanticancer.com) published in her blog the post Practice the hugtherapy without moderation! 4 hugs a day for good health!. Odile has the good habit of referencing all reviews, and I saw that one of the items on her post had been published in the journal of the American Association of Nurses of Intensive [...]

Re-christened, by Verónica Rojas

2019-08-02T19:01:20+01:005 July, 2014|

My dear friends:This week I'd like to share with you the summary of a story wrote some time ago by Pilar Sordo, a psychologist well-known in Chile."I see a wonderful family worry about the hairstyle of her mother who is in a deep coma, to make her look beautiful at the time of her departure. I see people recover, with smiles [...]

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