ICU

ICU

ICU
  • ICU (Intensive Care Unit) is a special room for critical patients who needs intensive treatment and continuous observation.

  • It is a special hospital division that offers patients suffering from a severe accident or disease with critical care medications and intensive care

  • Patients with the most severe and life-threatening illnesses or injuries that require continuous and constant supervision by a staff of specialist physicians and nurses are treated in intensive care units

  • The team is specialized in the treatment of patients who are seriously ill or badly injured.

  • The ICU is also recognized as the CCU (Critical Care Unit) or ITU (Intensive Treatment Unit).

Injuries & diseases that need ICU treatment
  • Severe complications with the heart, such as heart attack, extremely low blood pressure.

  • Respiratory system complications connected to asthma or complicated pneumonia.

  • Accidental circumstances that require major surgery & urgent intervention.

  • Individual who are in a coma need treatment in ICU

  • Liver complications and incidents of kidney failure that require dialysis.

  • After a major operation, a patient needs treatment in ICU.

Medical equipment available in ICU

An ICU is filled with various medical instruments,, few of that are listed below.

  • Dialysis machine

  • Infusion Pump

  • Patient Monitor

  • Electrocardiogram(ECG)

  • Syringe Pump

  • Mechanical ventilators

  • Suction tubes

  • Feeding tubes

  • Anesthesia Machine

  • External pacemakers

  • Blood Warmer

  • Defibrillator and so on.