I'll tell you that the average charge for being on a ventilator in a large tertiary hospital is about 5,000 dollars a day!
Why is it expensive? One on the ventilator is basically to give the family a critical notice, so that the family to be prepared!
The hospital will do everything possible to save the patient, the patient from the death line back!
And the question of why it's expensive? Because hospital equipment is inherently expensive to buy back! You go to the hospital to see the large ventilator, pacemaker equipment are imported from abroad (domestic only to get out of the monitor, that is, you said the monitor display). You think about taking the best foreign instruments and medical equipment to rescue patients, charges can not expensive?
And ICU is different from ordinary wards, 24 hours a full-time special person including nurses and doctors on duty, because ICU is a critical patient, the patient may leave at any time, in the critical moment ICU nurses and doctors to rescue the full force. You can say it is not expensive?
And the ICU is special nursing, because it is special, so medical school nursing students will not be arranged to the ICU ward, at most arranged to the tertiary care ward to go