ICU is Intensive Care Unit.
Also known as the Intensive Care Unit Integrated Treatment Room, treatment, care and rehabilitation can be synchronized to provide isolation places and equipment for critically ill or comatose patients, optimal care, integrated treatment, medical care, early postoperative rehabilitation, joint care exercise therapy and other services.
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ICU has a central monitoring station to directly observe all monitored beds.
The floor space of each bed is 15-18 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 machine, anesthesia machine, electrocardiograph, defibrillator, pacemaker, infusion pumps, micro-syringes, on standby oxygen device, tracheal intubation and tracheotomy, and other required emergency medical equipment.
In the better hospitals, there are also blood gas analyzers, microelectronic computers, electroencephalographs, ultrasound machines, bedside X-ray machines, hemodialysis machines, intra-arterial balloon pacemakers, blood and urine analyzers, blood biochemistry analyzers and so on.
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 Unit ( Neurosurgical intensive care unit, NSICU).
Other Intensive Care Units
Patients admitted to the MICU are critically ill patients from all specialties of internal medicine, with a broad coverage of common and difficult diseases of various systems, including acute respiratory failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) respiratory failure, severe bronchial asthma, severe infectious diseases of the lungs, lung tumors, severe interstitial lung diseases, pleural diseases, massive pulmonary embolism disease, etc., sepsis, multiple organ failure, acute pancreatitis combined with ARDS or acute cardiac insufficiency, hepatic coma caused by various reasons.
All kinds of acute and chronic renal failure CRRT treatment, severe lupus and multiple organ function injury, hematologic diseases, cerebrovascular lesions combined with heart failure and severe lung infection.
MICU for critically ill patients close, dynamic, accurate monitoring and timely, efficient treatment, especially in the airway management and mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic management, oxygen metabolism management, fluid management and nutritional support, to complete a variety of respiratory failure, multiple organ failure, various types of shock and other critical conditions of the monitoring, rescue, treatment and care.
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