ICU in English is called "Intensive Care Unit", which translates to Intensive Care Unit, Intensive Care Unit.
ICU is the name of a department, the full name in English is "Intensive Care Unit", literally translated as "intensive care unit". Since the introduction of ICU in China in the 1970s, there has been no conclusion as to what this foreign name should be translated into.
In Taiwan Province of China, ICU is called "intensive care unit", in Hong Kong is called "intensive care unit", but in the mainland, but there has been no unanimity of opinion, "central care unit", "critical care unit", "intensive care unit", "intensive care unit", "intensive care unit" and "intensive care unit". In the Mainland, however, there has been no unanimity, with the terms "central care unit", "critical care unit", "intensive care unit" and so on, to name but a few. However, regardless of the name, the patients admitted and the daily work carried out are more or less the same. ICU departments are involved in medicine called "critical care medicine", and the patients admitted are serious patients from various departments in the hospital.
History of ICU:
ICU has a history of more than 30 years in the world, and has now become the center of hospitals for the rescue of critically ill patients. how the level of supervision of the ICU, whether the equipment is advanced, has become an important measure of the level of a hospital.
China's ICU started late, began in the early 80's, the current domestic hospitals with ICU is not common, but has been paid attention to, it is estimated that the development of a rapid. ICU is divided into a comprehensive ICU specialized ICU (such as burns ICU, cardiovascular surgery ICU, neonatal ICU, etc.) CCU is a kind of specialized ICU, ICU has a central guardianship station, direct observation of all guardianship beds. observation of all monitored beds.