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For this post, we've decided to do a tutorial on how to draw blood correctly. This post is especially recommended to all beginners in nursing, for them to have a good guide to learn how to do this technique properly. For a nurse, knowing how to draw blood is a basic skill. At the hospital, every morning blood analytics are requested, and in most cases they may need to go to the laboratory as soon as possible, so  nurses have to fill all the blood tubes fast to ease patient care. This video may help students that are learning and are afraid to do it for the first time in a real human and not in a silicone arm.

This week we've done an infographic about sleep to show you the importance it has, what happens when we are sleeping, the different stages we go through and some curious facts about dreaming. We've also added some advice for you to have a great sleep considering professional resources. Sleeping plays an essential role in your health and well being, and it is important to complete a certain time of sleeping a day for our brain and body to be functional. When you sleep, important physical and mental processes are carried out, so we hope this helps you to have a better sleep.

It’s no big surprise to come out of the doctor’s with a prescription for a drug, we just want to get better but we rarely give second thought to what we are actually buying. We all know drugs and medicaments have side effects, but there may be more than you think, and way more serious than you would imagine.    Anticholinergics, medicaments commonly prescribed to renal and gastrointestinal patients have been proven dangerous by British researchers. They work by inhibiting a chemical messenger called acetylcholine. Their effect is to help relax and contract the muscles surrounding the bladder or intestines, and to ease some symptoms from Parkinson’s disease. In this new study, which has taken into account data from tens of thousands of participants, researchers concluded that anticholinergic drugs may increase the risk of developing dementia by almost 50%. The team looked at data listing the information about prescriptions over a period o...

Cuando hablamos de avances tecnológicos, puede que nuestra cabeza nos lleve directamente a los nuevos iPhone 11 o a las Smart TV, gracias a los que podemos ver todo lo que antes tan solo veíamos en el ordenador. En realidad, los avances están presentes en cada rincón de nuestra vida, incluso en las cosas que pensamos que siempre han sido así y pensamos que no está presente la tecnología. La salud es uno de esos sitios en los que la tecnología se esta convirtiendo en la base de todo si no lo es ya: Aparatos de ultima generación que nos permiten saber nuestro genoma en unas pocas horas, detectar enfermedades graves en estadios primarios facilitando su curación, el control de patologías que afectan a nuestro metabolismo de manera agresiva como la diabetes o el hipotiroidismo, de manera eficaz y sobre llevable… Expedientes en papel reemplazados por paquetes de datos, permitiendo el análisis de datos de pacientes y la construcción de bases de datos enormes que se usan en estudios e...

To be able to do our daily life tasks, for example commuting to work, doing housework, reading a book, etc… Our body requires energy, just as a car needs fuel to run. We provide our body with energy through nutrition, and the better the fuel, in this case the food we eat, the better it will work. An equilibrated diet consists of providing the calories needed through consuming foods that contain proteins, carbohydrates and fats in the proper amounts. For an average healthy adult person the recommended daily diet should be based on 40% carbs, 30% fats and 30% proteins. When putting together your diet you have to take into account your own metabolism, since for every person it varies slightly. It is very recommended to get an expert’s opinion to adjust numerous requirements to your own physiology, things such as: age, sex, body development stage, daily physical activity… We recommend a diet based on a majority of plant and vegetal based products and fewer products with animal or...

On a daily basis we hear that we need to workout, whether it’s on TV adverts or during small talk with our colleagues, it seems that doing some exercise is mandatory. But what's the reason behind these affirmations? Can regular exercise improve my life? What benefits does it have? What working out  means … The first thing that should know is that you shouldn’t start working out to reach a set goal, it has to become part of your daily schedule and remain there for all your life. Many people join a gym or start running a few kilometres a day to lose a few kilos or to get their dream body from summer. This is great, but what usually happens is that after reaching their objective they remove exercise from their lives. But even worse, many set doing exercise at the top of their new year’s resolutions, but drop out a few weeks after starting. You don’t need to wait for new year's eve or the next time you want to go to the beach to start getting in shape. Just take some spare ti...

Inagurating the blog The creation of this blog has several objectives: For the readers to get an overall knowledge about their own body. Understanding the importance of the different habits that lead to a healthy life. For the readers to understand, over time, the basic of medicine and allow them to become their own care takers. Get a basic understanding of nutricion and the impact it has on health. For us to learn more and become better professionals.