intensive care unit
Intensive Care Unit, Intensive Care Unit, Intensive Care Unit, ICU - part of a hospital that treats patients in critical condition. Its staff are specialists and highly qualified nurses.
It differs from other hospital departments that require patients to be continuously monitored for vital functions and to support at least one of the following systems:
Complicated treatment is performed, for example, respiratory failure, circulatory failure, severe infections (including septic shock), blood transfusion with blood loss, dialysis in renal failure, hemodialysis in case of some poisoning. Monitoring of vital signs, such as body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, exhaled carbon dioxide (capnometry), blood glucose, is performed.
Nursing staff, such as the toilet of the body, feeding, prevention of bedsores, aspiration of the intubated patients, administration of medications, and continuous monitoring of the patient's condition are essential components of unconscious treatment. Typically, one or two patients (more than two) are included in an OIT nurse.
An important part of therapy in this ward is physiotherapy to prevent muscle atrophy and contracture and to keep the motor system functioning at a normal level.
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