Definitions for intensive-care unit
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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 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 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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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. County Executive Ed Day:

   To say we are overreaching flies in the face of facts, history and, most importantly, common sense, in 2017, measles killed 110,000 people worldwide, mostly children under age 5. We have had five cases go to the intensive care unit. Need we wait for someone to die ?

2. 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.

3. Patricia Stinchfield:

   You've got to understand how this spreads, and you want to know what people's symptoms are and who's having mild versus severe disease. How many people are hospitalized ? How many in the intensive care unit ?

4. Elizabeth Cherot:

   What happened in 2020 and 2021 compared with 2019 is Covid, this is sort of my reflection on this time period, Covid-19 and pregnancy. Women were at increased risk for morbidity and mortality from Covid. And that actually has been well-proven in some studies, showing increased risks of death, but also being ventilated in the intensive care unit, preeclampsia and blood clots, all of those things increasing a risk of morbidity and mortality.

5. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams:

   I've shared myself personally that I have high blood pressure. That I have heart disease and spent a week in the( intensive care unit) due to a heart condition. That I actually have asthma and I'm pre-diabetic, and so I represent that legacy of growing up poor and black in America, i and many black Americans are at higher risk for Covid. It's why we need everyone to do their part to slow the spread.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive-Care_Unit
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=intensive-care unit