What is the icu ward for?

ICU ward means the abbreviation of intensive care unit, which is a special treatment place for critically ill patients. ICU is IntensiveCareUnit, also known as comprehensive treatment room of intensive care unit. Treatment, nursing and rehabilitation can be carried out simultaneously, providing isolated places and equipment for patients with severe or coma, and providing services such as best nursing, comprehensive treatment, combination of medical care and nursing, early postoperative rehabilitation, joint care and exercise therapy.

Only by concentrating critically ill patients in ICU and giving the best guarantee in manpower, material resources and technology can we get good treatment results. There is a central monitoring station in ICU, which can directly observe all the monitored beds. Each bed covers a wide area, and the beds are separated by glass or cloth curtains. ICU is equipped with bedside monitors, central monitors, multifunctional respiratory therapy machines, anesthesia machines, electrocardiographs, defibrillators, pacemakers, infusion pumps, microinjectors, emergency equipment for tracheal intubation and tracheotomy, CPM combined with exercise therapy nurses and other equipment.

The Department of Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine also have the 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; Neurosurgical intensive care unit.

All kinds of critically ill patients are admitted to ICU, and different patients often need different monitoring treatment, so it is impossible to formulate a unified ICU monitoring plan suitable for each patient. However, ICU patients have a common feature, that is, they are critically ill and need at least basic daily monitoring, that is, general monitoring, except special monitoring.