ICU has a central monitoring station to directly observe all monitored beds. Each bed covers an area of 15 to 18 square meters, and the beds are separated by glass or cloth curtains.ICU equipment must be equipped with bedside monitors, central monitors, multifunctional respiratory therapy machines, anesthesia machines, electrocardiographs, defibrillators, pacemakers, infusion pumps, micro-syringes, oxygen delivery devices in a standby state, tracheal intubation and tracheotomy first aid equipment required. In the better hospitals, also equipped with blood gas analyzer, micro-computer, EEG machine, ultrasound machine, bedside X-ray machine, hemodialysis machine, intra-arterial balloon counterpulsator, blood and urine analyzer, blood biochemistry analyzer.
In addition, there are pediatric intensive care unit (PICU); neonatal intensive care unit (NICU); medical intensive care unit (MICU); cardiovascular intensive care unit (CCU); cardiac surgical intensive care unit (CICU); emergency intensive care unit (EICU) neurosurgical intensive care ( Neurosurgical intensive care unit, NSICU).