intensive-care unit
Hospital's sickest patients
An intensive-care unit is a hospital department providing continuous monitoring and treatment for critically ill patients.
Often abbreviated ICU.
Patients in the ICU typically have life-threatening conditions requiring specialized equipment and round-the-clock attention: She spent three days in the intensive-care unit after the accident.
- resuscitationRestoring vital functions
- hospital bedClinical sleeping furniture
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- ventilatorMechanical breathing apparatus
- sepsisDangerous inflammatory infection response
emergency department · intubation · mechanical ventilation · monitoring · round the clock · critical · fighting for life · touch and go · coma · cardiac arrest · operating theater · illness · do not resuscitate · bedside manner · pulse oximeter · defibrillator · medical emergency · triage
intensive-care unitgeneral admission
long-term care facility · ambulatory care · outpatient clinic · recovery ward · hospice
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