Category Archives: humanity

12. Bullying, Threats & Intimidation — patientsafe

If patient safety is to improve healthcare needs to change. The historical top down approach which has hindered improvement requires a transition into one where decisions are driven from the front line. Those corporations who’ve introduced front line driven frameworks (e.g. Toyota Production System – see here) provide the highest quality in the most efficientContinue reading “12. Bullying, Threats & Intimidation — patientsafe”

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”

“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”

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”