intensive care unit
1Intensive-care unit — ICU room An intensive care unit (ICU), critical care unit (CCU), intensive therapy unit/intensive treatment unit (ITU) or High Dependency Unit (HDU) is a specialized department in a hospital that provides intensive care medicine. Many hospitals… …
2Intensive care unit — An intensive care unit (ICU), critical care unit (CCU), intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) is a specialized department used in many countries hospitals that provides intensive care medicine. Many hospitals also have… …
3intensive care unit — the specialized center in a hospital where intensive care is provided. Abbr.: ICU [1960 65] * * * or critical care unit Hospital facility for care of critically ill patients at a more intensive level than is needed by other patients. Staffed by… …
4intensive care unit — noun a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care • Syn: ↑ICU • Hypernyms: ↑unit, ↑social unit • Hyponyms: ↑coronary care unit, ↑neonatal intensive care unit, ↑NICU …
5intensive care unit — intensive therapy unit …
6Intensive care unit psychosis — A disorder in which patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) or a similar hospital setting may experience anxiety, become paranoid, hear voices, see things that are not there, become severely disoriented in time and place, become very agitated,… …
7intensive care unit — (ICU) a hospital unit in which are concentrated special equipment and skilled personnel for the care of seriously ill patients requiring immediate and continuous attention. Many such units are specialized, such as burn, cardiac or coronary,… …
8intensive care unit — noun that section of a hospital in which intensive care is given. Abbrev.: ICU …
9intensive care unit — hospital unit where very attentive care is given to patients right after surgery …
10intensive care unit — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. ICU, hospital room, emergency unit, critical room; see hospital …
