Where does the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) money go, it's going to be 10,000 dollars a day. It seems that they just rely on the ventilator to keep them alive, and the person is just like a vegetable!
Oh, the upstairs talk is also too radical point. I'll tell you what. First of all, because the patient is admitted to the icu is an intensive care unit, the bed fee is higher than the ward, and the patient is intensive care, there is no family care, all life needs to be responsible for the staff, this has the intensive care fee; and then the patient is generally more serious condition to go to the icu, and that is the need for cardiac monitors to continuously monitor, and then if there is an invasive blood pressure monitoring, then it will also involve a series of monitoring tubing and costs! Problems; and then there is your ventilator tubing is required to be replaced weekly, each replacement is also a material cost, and then usually use the ventilator needs oxygen, this is also the cost, and then the ventilator to you, you need to charge the use of the ventilator (this and these monitors are charged by the hour). There is a ventilator then also need to suction ah, once you need to use one or two suction tubes, usually one to two hours to suction once, this is also a one-time to have consumables fee. Then you live there in a variety of drugs ah, anti-infective drugs are generally used better, so the relative cost is higher. And you have a respirator ah, can not eat by themselves ah, that also involves the use of intravenous nutritional fluid, is not cheap oh. I'm not sure what your specific condition is like, but these are probably some of the hardware costs. But also for the specific condition of the use of drugs ah, instrumentation to charge the situation. Professional opinion, I hope to give you help.