ICU stay
Intensive care period
An ICU stay is a period of hospitalization in an intensive care unit, where patients receive close monitoring and life support for serious illness or injury.
The phrase appears frequently in medical contexts discussing recovery, costs, or outcomes: After a three-week ICU stay, she was moved to a regular ward.
Extended ICU stays often indicate severe complications.
- ventilatorMechanical breathing apparatus
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- code blueHospital cardiac arrest signal
- touch and goDangerously uncertain situation
- monitorDisplay or supervisor
vital signs · beeping · sedation · intubation · nurse · vitals · tubes · wires · breathing · coma · recovery · waking up · machines · life support · oxygen · family · visiting hours · bedside
- hospitalizationhospital bed, hospital gown, inpatient, admission, discharge papers
- Medical Eventssurgery, diagnosis, treatment, procedure, operation
- traumasabuse, accident, assault, attack, disaster
ICU stayoutpatient treatment
Care without overnight admission
routine checkup · outpatient visit · wellness visit · annual physical · preventive care
ICU stayoutpatient care
Healthcare without hospitalization
ambulatory care · home care · day surgery · home health care
ICU, stay, stays, stayed, staying, intensely, intensity, intensify, carefully