What is the full form of ICU?
The full form of ICU is intensive care unit. It is a special hospital unit where patients who have suffered a serious accident or illness are provided with critical medications and intensive care. Patients with serious and life-threatening illnesses or injuries that require continuous and constant monitoring by a team of medical specialists and nurses are treated in the intensive care unit. The team specializes in the treatment of critically ill or seriously injured patients. The intensive care unit is also known as a CCU (critical care unit) or ITU (intensive treatment unit).
Injuries & diseases that need different ICU treatment
ICUs often have their own staff, such as respiratory therapists, physical therapists, pharmacists, anesthesiologists, and so on.
- Severe complications of the heart, such as heart attack, extremely low blood pressure.
- Complications of the respiratory system related to asthma or complicated pneumonia.
- Accidents requiring major surgery and urgent intervention.
- Individuals in a coma requiring treatment in the intensive care unit
- Liver complications and cases of kidney failure requiring dialysis.
- After major surgery, a patient must be treated in the intensive care unit.
- For babies who are born prematurely or with a serious illness, there is a special intensive care unit called the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit).
Medical equipment of the ICU department
An ICU is equipped with various medical instruments, some of which are listed below.
- Dialysis machine
- Infusion pump
- Patient monitor
- Electrocardiogram(ECG)
- Syringe pump
- Mechanical ventilator
- Suction tubes
- Tubes for nutrition
- Anesthesia machine
- External pacemakers
- Blood warmer
- Defibrillator and so on.