FULL FORM OF ICU
WHAT IS ICU
The full form of ICU is Intensive Care Unit. It is a special unit of a hospital that facilitate intensive care and life support to patients suffering from a serious injury or illness. Intensive care units look after the patients with severe and life threatening injuries or illness which needs constant and close monitoring by a team of specialised doctors and nurses. The team is trained to handle the critically ill or severely injured patients.EQUIPMENTS AVAILABLE IN ICU
The following medical equipment are available in ICU to cater the emergencies.
1. Mechanical Ventilators
2. Infusion Pump
3. External Pacemaker
4. Dialysis Machine
5. ECG Machine
6. Defibrillator
7. Blood Warmer
8. BP and Pulse Monitor
9. Feeding tubes,Suction tubes etc
CASES THAT REQUIRED SPECIAL TREATMENT IN ICU
The following are the the illness and injury that requires special treatment in the ICU-
1. Patient in Coma
2. After a major surgery
3. Accident Cases which requires major surgery and needs life support.
4. Severe heart problem like heart attack.
5. Problem in Respiratory system due to asthma or complicated pneumonia.
6.Liver problems and kidney failure cases which requires dialysis.
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