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Also known as Intensive care unit (ICU) is a special care offered by the hospital to patients whose conditions is life threatening and who are in need of complete care and constant monitoring. A team of specially-trained medical staff provides 24-hours care. This includes using machines and continuously monitoring patient’s major signs. An individual who have a life threatening illness or injury such as heart failure, severe burns,COVID-19, people who have undergone major surgeries and are recovering, heart attacks, kidney failures etc.

What happens in a critical care unit?

In a critical care unit, health care team uses different type of equipments which includes

  • Catheters, adaptable Tubes used to get liquids into the body or to empty liquids out of the body.
  • Dialysis machines for individuals with kidney failure.
  • Feeding tubes which support nutritional intake.
  • Intravenous (IV) lines to give you liquids and drugs.
  • Machines which check your crucial signs and show them on monitors.
  • Oxygen therapy to give you additional oxygen to take in.
  • Tracheostomy tubes, which are breathing Tubes. The Tube is put in a precisely made opening that experiences the front of the neck and into the windpipe.
  • Ventilators (breathing machines), which move air all through your lungs.

These machines can keep patient alive, however a large number of them can likewise raise their danger of infection.

Below are few common conditions seen that require critical care:

  • Heart problems.
  • Lung problems.
  • Organ failure.
  • Brain trauma.
  • Blood infections (sepsis).
  • Drug-resistant infections.
  • Serious injury (car crash, burns).

Patients in intensive care units are cared by a medical team that may include:

  • Specially trained nurses.
  • Physicians.
  • Respiratory therapists.
  • Care managers.
  • Physical and occupational therapists.
  • Other providers.