Category Archives: intensive care

Teamwork and team training in the ICU: Where do the similarities with aviation end? — Nursing Education Network

Journal Club Article: Reader, T. W., & Cuthbertson, B. H. (2011). Teamwork and team training in the ICU: Where do the similarities with aviation end?. Critical care, 15(6), 313. Background Comparing the lessons learnt and development of team training approaches in the aviation industry to the complex needs of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). TheContinue reading “Teamwork and team training in the ICU: Where do the similarities with aviation end? — Nursing Education Network”

“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”

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”

Crazy madness — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE

Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigos.As you know, last week we ask your collaboration in the survey about the current situation of Humanization of your ICU. We have received 136 forms from ICU of 20 different countriesWe will share step by step the results.To those 136 people, I sent by e-mail the Humanization Plan of… viaContinue reading “Crazy madness — IC-HU PROJECT: HUMANIZING INTENSIVE CARE”