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intensive care unit

n. Abbr. ICU
A specialized section of a hospital containing the equipment, medical and nursing staff, and monitoring devices necessary to provide intensive care.
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intensive care unit

(ICU) An area of a hospital where seriously ill patients are kept under constant medical care and observation.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.intensive care unit - a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care
ICU
hospital - a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care
coronary care unit - a hospital unit specially staffed and equipped to treat patients with serious cardiac problems
neonatal intensive care unit, NICU - an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn
social unit, unit - an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the predictive power of mortality of PRISM score in a Tertiary Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in a developing country.
MORTALITY RISK ASSESSMENT IN PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT OF A DEVELOPING COUNTRY USING PRISM SCORE
The health issues faced by the Orang Asli Batek tribe community has resulted in 99 people given medical treatment, with four warded in the Intensive Care Units of the Kuala Krai Hospital and Raja Perempuan Zainab II Hospital here.
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The Kingdom's ambassador to Lebanon, Walid bin Abdullah Bukhari, performed the official opening of a new Saudi-funded hospital intensive care unit in Beirut.
Saudi ambassador opens KSA-funded hospital ICU in Beirut
The 30-year-old from Bangor then spent two weeks in an induced coma in October 2013 at the intensive care unit, where she almost died after suffering septic shock.
Hospital bride wears her wedding gown at last
The worker is now in the intensive care unit on ventilator support.
Man in intensive care after being crushed by marble slabs
The Royal Hospital, represented by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, announced on Wednesday that the babies are doing fine.
WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO QUINTUPLETS AT THE ROYAL HOSPITAL
Very few health professionals can truly understand the disruption a child's admission to an intensive care unit can have on a family unit's health.
Preserving families psychological and psychosocial health in PICU: a review on the health professionals role
Keilin was taken to an intensive care unit where she is said to be in a serious condition
Grieving mum realises 'dead' baby girl is STILL ALIVE when tot breathes during funeral service; Keilin Johanna Ortiz Montoya was declared dead by doctors at a hospital in Villanueva, Honduras, on August 6 - so her devastated mum arranged a church vigil
The study was conducted in surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU), emergency ICU, neurosurgery ICU, newborn ICU (NICU), pediatric ICU, coronary ICU, cardiovascular surgery ICU and pediatric surgery intensive care units of a state university medical faculty between April 2011 and June 2011.
Precautions taken by nurses about the prevention of Hospital-Acquired Infections in Intensive Care Units
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