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ICU
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a specialized hospital department that provides critical care and life support to patients with severe or life-threatening illnesses or injuries. It is equipped with advanced technology and staffed by highly trained medical professionals who monitor and treat patients around the clock.
- Offers Continuous Monitoring: Patients are constantly monitored using devices that track vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels, and respiratory function.
- Ventilators: Machines that help patients breathe when they are unable to do so on their own.
- Dialysis Machines: Used to support kidney function in patients with renal failure.
- Intravenous (IV) Infusions: For administering medications, fluids, and nutrition directly into the bloodstream.
- Respiratory Failure: Patients requiring mechanical ventilation due to conditions like pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
- Severe Infections: Including sepsis, which requires intensive monitoring and treatment.
- Heart Conditions: Management of patients after heart attacks, cardiac surgeries, or those with unstable heart rhythms.
- Post-Surgery Care: Especially for those recovering from major surgeries such as organ transplants, brain surgery, or trauma surgeries.
- The ICU is staffed by critical care specialists (intensivists), nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals who work together to manage complex cases.
- Strict infection control measures are in place to prevent infections in vulnerable patients with weakened immune systems.