ICU patient
Monitored intensive care
An ICU patient is someone admitted to an intensive care unit—a hospital ward for critically ill people requiring constant monitoring and life support.
The term appears in medical contexts and news coverage of health crises: ICU patients with COVID-19 overwhelmed hospitals during the pandemic.
Being an ICU patient implies serious, potentially life-threatening illness.
- ventilatorMechanical breathing apparatus
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- critical conditionSeverely ill, unstable medically
- monitorsTracks or displays
- beepingEmitting short tones
medical emergency · sedated · induced coma · intubated · nurse · round the clock · vitals · oxygen · tubes · wires · coma · unstable · touch and go · crash · code blue · family · next of kin · visiting hours
- patientsinpatients, inpatient, outpatients, outpatient
- Patient Typesinpatient, outpatient, acute, chronic, critical
- victimsvictim, victims, casualty, survivors, fatality
- Immune WeaknessHIV, AIDS, chemotherapy, immunosuppressants, leukemia
ICU patientoutpatient
Treated without admission
walk-in patient · discharged patient · survivor · hospice patient
ICU, patient, patients, patience, patiently, impatient, impatience, impatiently