ICU is the abbreviation of English Intensive Care Unit, meaning Intensive Care Unit, is an important place for the treatment and care of critically ill patients.
1, ICU is the intensive care unit, is for some of the critical patients to provide a ward, set the best care, comprehensive treatment, early postoperative rehabilitation, etc. mainly a ward.
1, because the ICU to the critically ill patients for close monitoring and treatment, so there are often many rare on the equipment. In addition to beds, monitoring systems and other basic equipment equipped with ordinary wards, ICU must be equipped with equipment: electrocardiograph, blood gas analyzer, defibrillator, cardiopulmonary resuscitation device, fiberoptic bronchoscopy, blood purification devices, hemodynamic monitoring, oxygen metabolism monitoring and other equipment.
2. ICU has a central monitoring station to directly observe all monitored beds. Each bed occupies an area of 15-18_, and the beds are separated by glass or cloth curtains.ICU equipment must be equipped with bedside monitors, central monitors, multifunctional respiratory therapy machine, anesthesia machine, electrocardiograph, defibrillator, pacemaker, infusion pumps, and microinjectors.
Two, ICU accepted patients
1, ICU is mainly admitted to short-term treatment may be recovered, stay can reduce the risk of death of patients, such as respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, multi-organ failure (symptoms reversible), major surgery resuscitation, injury poisoning, coma, shock, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other patients. For chronic wasting disease and terminal tumors, irreversible diseases and other patient disease is not the scope of ICU admission.