Not the same.
1, ICU belongs to the intensive care unit, which is one of the highest level wards in the hospital, and is given to patients with acute and serious illnesses, while the intensive care unit belongs to the later recovery wards.
2, ICU is equipped with intelligent turnover nursing beds, fiberscope, bedside monitor, central monitor, multi-function respiratory therapy machine, anesthesia machine, electrocardiogram machine. Cardiopulmonary and cerebral resuscitation, vital signs monitoring, specimen collection, weight and nutritional regular monitoring, drug administration and oxygenation, limb function rehabilitation, rescue, treatment and prevention of the three combinations of rescue, care, treatment, rehabilitation and life as a whole. The intensive care ward can only do personal care, no large medical instruments in the ward.
3, intensive care ward staff is composed of hospital quality medical personnel, director or deputy director of the doctor knows the specialty and basic theoretical knowledge, has excellent management skills, rich experience in dealing with critical patients. Intensive care wards only need nurses at the level of intensive care.
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Intensive Care (ICU). p>Principles of the scope of intensive care (ICU):
The scope of monitoring in the intensive care unit is very broad, and can be divided into several systems, such as respiratory, circulatory, hepatic, cerebral, renal, gastrointestinal, hematologic and coagulation mechanisms, endocrine, water electrolyte, and oxygenation.
Commonly used monitoring items include electrocardiogram, cardiac function, blood pressure, respiratory rate and rhythm and type, body temperature, urine output, arterial blood gas analysis, electroencephalography and more than 20 other items, and according to the critical degree of the condition of the scope of monitoring is divided into three levels, the first level of monitoring for patients with special care, the second level of monitoring for patients who may be at risk of fatal illnesses and surgeries, the third level of monitoring for those whose condition tends to be stabilized.
In principle, the intensive care unit does not allow the patient's family to accompany, but allows relatives to visit. Visiting time should generally be arranged in the nap, the time does not exceed 2 hours is appropriate. To obey the management of the medical staff.
The treatment of critical illnesses in the intensive care unit creates the time and possibility for the treatment of primary illnesses, so that some of the original poorly treated or untreatable diseases can be effectively controlled and satisfactorily treated; at the same time, the treatment of primary illnesses in other specialized departments is the basis for the fundamental improvement of critical illnesses.
This organic combination of critical care medical specialty and other specialties is one of the keys to the development of the intensive care unit in the general hospital.
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