Definitions for intensive care units
in·ten·sive care units

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1. intensive care units

   An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive care medicine. Intensive care units cater to patients with severe or life-threatening illnesses and injuries, which require constant care, close supervision from life support equipment and medication in order to ensure normal bodily functions. They are staffed by highly trained physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists who specialize in caring for critically ill patients. ICUs are also distinguished from general hospital wards by a higher staff-to-patient ratio and access to advanced medical resources and equipment that is not routinely available elsewhere. Common conditions that are treated within ICUs include acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, and other life-threatening conditions. Patients may be referred directly from an emergency department or from a ward if they rapidly deteriorate, or immediately after surgery if the surgery is very invasive and the patient is at high risk of complications.

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1. Intensive Care Units

   Hospital units providing continuous surveillance and care to acutely ill patients.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of intensive care units in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of intensive care units in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of intensive care units in a Sentence

1. Peter Hotez:

   It was just open it up and then more or less business as usual, with a little bit of window dressing, this is not an abstract number of cases. Were seeing people pile into intensive care units.

2. Krishnakant Singh:

   Just oxygen won’t help, we need ICUs (intensive care units) and ventilators. Just breathing has become difficult here.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   All you need to do ...is to go into the trenches, go into the hospitals, go into the intensive care units and see what is happening, those are real numbers, real people and real deaths.

4. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi:

   They have never really seen so many people in the intensive care units who spoke Spanish.

5. Krishnakant Singh:

   I get calls for beds every day. But where are the beds? Our in-charge of a primary healthcare centre died last night in a private nursing home as we couldn’t find him a bed in a proper hospital, just oxygen won’t help, we need ICUs (intensive care units) and ventilators. Just breathing has become difficult here.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_Care_Units