Definitions for intensive care unit
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1. intensive care unit, ICUnoun

   a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care

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1. Intensive care unit

   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 treatment 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 doctors and nurses who specialize in caring for critically ill patients. ICUs are also distinguished from general hospital wards by a higher staff-to-patient access to advanced medical resources and equipment that is not routinely available elsewhere. Common conditions that are treated within ICUs include acute (or adult) respiratory distress syndrome, hypertension, matastases and life threatening conditions Patients may be referred directly from an emergency department if required, 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 unit

   An intensive care unit (ICU) is a specialized department in a hospital that provides comprehensive and constant care for patients who are critically ill or have life-threatening conditions. This involves highly specialized and dedicated medical and nursing staff, monitoring equipment and medical devices, and a variety of intensive medical interventions and treatments.

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1. Intensive care unit

   An Intensive Care Unit, also known as a Critical Care Unit, Intensive Therapy Unit or Intensive Treatment Unit is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive-care medicine. Intensive Care Units cater to patients with the most severe and life-threatening illnesses and injuries; that require constant, close monitoring and support from specialist equipment and medication in order to maintain normal bodily functions. They are staffed by highly trained doctors and critical care nurses who specialise in caring for seriously ill patients. Common conditions that are treated within ICU's include those such as trauma, multiple organ failure and sepsis. Patients may be transferred directly to an Intensive Care Unit from an Emergency Department if required, or from a ward if they rapidly deteriorate; or immediately after surgery if the surgery is majorly invasive and the patient is at high risk of complications.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of intensive care unit in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of intensive care unit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of intensive care unit in a Sentence

1. Evelyn Stauffer:

   Later that day the minor was transferred to a children's hospital in Texas and was treated for several days in the hospital's intensive care unit.

2. William Schaffner:

   But we do think that being attacked by two viruses, particularly if you are less than five years of age, it’s been clearly demonstrated by this study, it does tend to make your illness more severe, more likely to be prolonged in the hospital, more likely to be in the pediatric intensive care unit, and so clearly, having your lungs and your throat and your body – generally your immune system – attacked by two viruses simultaneously, understandably might make some young children more severely ill.

3. Edward Hartle:

   Since September 30, we have changed this process, and have been using single-use equipment to measure and administer donor breast milk, we have had no new cases of infants becoming ill from pseudomonas in the( neonatal intensive care unit) since making this change.

4. Steven Brown:

   If the intensive care unit beds are all filled up with patients who are on ventilators because of their pneumonia, surgeries have to be postponed, we have situations where people may come into the hospital with a heart attack, and they have to stay in the emergency room for extended periods of time while waiting for a bed to open up.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   What the UK is not seeing, and that's good news, is an increase of severity or an increase in the use of intensive care unit beds or an increase in the all-cause mortality.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=intensive care unit
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_Care_Unit
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=intensive care unit