Commonly used nursing assessment tool in icu is CAM-ICU.
ICU knowledge expansion:
ICU that is, intensive care intensive care unit is also known as intensive care unit integrated treatment room, treatment, care and rehabilitation can be synchronized, providing isolation place and equipment for critically ill or comatose patients, providing optimal care, integrated treatment, medical care integration, early postoperative rehabilitation, joint care exercise therapy and other services. Targeted monitoring of supply, also known as intensive care unit.
It is with the medical, nursing, rehabilitation and other professional *** with the development, the birth of new medical equipment and hospital management system improvement and the emergence of a set of modern medical, nursing, rehabilitation technology as one of the forms of medical organization and management.
Admitted to the object:
1, severe trauma, major surgery and must be continuous close monitoring of life indicators and supporters;
2, the need for cardiopulmonary resuscitation of patients;
3, organs: including heart, brain, lungs, liver, renal failure or multiple organ failure;
4, severe shock, sepsis and poisoning, physical, chemical factors leading to critical and serious patients.