Category Archives: human-condition

She doesnt want a Nespresso for Christmas

Picture of the day! A pregnant doctor with her child on her back is performing a cesarean section to save a mother and a kid in Kenya. pic.twitter.com/BpFWdkXPRn — Aliyu Ndajiwo 🇳🇬 (@Ali_Ndaj) December 24, 2016 The pregnant doctor's note. In low resource settings you will see all kinds of things. Her passion is 💯!Continue reading “She doesnt want a Nespresso for Christmas”

9. Dispersion — patientsafe

‘Over the last few years NSW Health have received numerous reports of death and morbidity from central line related air emboli’. This statement in itself is a ‘call to action’. ‘Why don’t we know about this already, how is it happening, what’s already been done and what can we do to stop this’. (see here) […]Continue reading “9. Dispersion — patientsafe”

“Doctor, am I going to die?” — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE

Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.”How to respond to an ICU patient asking if she/he is going to die”: this is the title of the article published by Margaret Isaac and J. Randall Curtis online first last September in Intensive Care Medicine, as “What´s New in Intensive Care?”.It is not easy at all to establish… viaContinue reading ““Doctor, am I going to die?” — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE”

#badEM16: Ross Hofmeyr – My best and biggest blunders — #badEM

“Let your mistakes haunt you and they will destroy you. Let your mistakes teach you and they will grow you” – Ross Hofmeyr Dr Ross Hofmeyr talks about making mistakes and how we deal with them through telling the stories of his best and biggest blunders. Because the only clinicians who do not make… via #badEM16:Continue reading “#badEM16: Ross Hofmeyr – My best and biggest blunders — #badEM”

Training Compassion — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6iGcdFGvdhg%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. A couple of months ago and thanks to Enric Benito, I met Gonzalo Brito after have seen a talk in the last Congress of SECPAL. Gonzalo is from Chile, and he is a clinical psychologist clinical that expanded his training in the Compassion and Altruism Research and EducationContinue reading “Training Compassion — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE”

Towards the humanized and integrative ICU. By Federico Carini — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE

In the last Congress of Argentinean Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SATI) held in Salta, there was a gale of news. A difference from previous years, news came not only from classical areas of intensive care such as shock, acute distress respiratory syndrome or sepsis, but we saw the appearance of humanizing intensive care on… viaContinue reading “Towards the humanized and integrative ICU. By Federico Carini — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE”

The ICU Walk Protocol in English — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE

Not so far ago, we share in this blog the post The ICU Walk Protocol.We promised you to translate into English the protocol, and here it is:The ICU Walk Protocol (free download)We hope you find it useful.Best regards,Dr. José Carlos Igeño CanoHead of Emergency and ICU. Hospital San Juan de Dios de CórdobaMember of the IC-HU…Continue reading “The ICU Walk Protocol in English — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE”

Playground behaviour — Don’t Forget the Bubbles

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3q-gEnF8qp4%3Ffeature%3Doembed This week Lieutenant General David Morrison AO has been invited to my healthcare network to talk about bullying and harassment. Before considering it in the medical profession it is worth looking over what bullying means to children. Bullies have been around since before school even began. There have been many examples from page toContinue reading “Playground behaviour — Don’t Forget the Bubbles”

Increasing resilience in doctors does not help in a toxic culture

Anil Patel pens review article on low-flow and high-flow nasal ventilation https://t.co/S7zFXypQgX NO DESAT and THRIVE techniques — Anesthesiology News (@anesthesianews) August 8, 2016 @dermotor @DrJamieRiches @CSC16 @startle65 Increasing resilience in doctors does not help in a toxic culture. — Sally Davies (@sallydavies27) August 8, 2016