Intensive Care Unit Definition

noun
A specialized section of a hospital containing the equipment, medical and nursing staff, and monitoring devices necessary to provide intensive care.
American Heritage Medicine
A hospital ward into which critically ill patients, in danger of dying, are admitted and closely monitored (abbreviation: ICU).
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • icu
  • emergency unit
  • critical room
  • hospital room

Other Word Forms of Intensive Care Unit

Noun

Singular:
intensive care unit
Plural:
intensive-care-units

Intensive Care Unit Sentence Examples

  • Very ill patients need to be hospitalized in an intensive care unit.

  • Actor Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly's newborn twins are in the neonatal intensive care unit at Cedar's Sinai Medical Center.

  • The average one-pound infant is likely to be contained in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), a place that doesn't necessitate a full wardrobe.

  • Treatment begins immediately in the emergency room or intensive care unit of a hospital.

  • The availability of a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a special hospital unit equipped and trained to deal with premature infants, can also increase an infant's chances of survival.

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