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What does ICU mean?
ICU is the intensive care unit.

Also known as the comprehensive treatment room of intensive care unit, it can provide treatment, nursing and rehabilitation at the same time, provide isolated places and equipment for patients with severe or coma, and provide services such as optimal nursing, comprehensive treatment, combination of medical care and nursing, early postoperative rehabilitation, joint care and exercise therapy.

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Ward equipment

There is a central monitoring station in ICU, which can directly observe all the monitored beds.

The area of each bed is15-18m2, and the beds are separated by glass or cloth curtains.

ICU equipment must be equipped with bedside monitors, central monitors, multifunctional respiratory therapy machines, anesthesia machines, electrocardiographs, defibrillators, pacemakers, infusion pumps, microinjectors, oxygen inhalation devices in standby state, tracheal intubation and tracheotomy.

Hospitals with better conditions include blood gas analyzer, microcomputer, electroencephalograph, B-ultrasound, bedside X-ray machine, hemodialysis machine, intra-arterial balloon counterpulsation machine, routine hematuria analyzer and blood biochemical analyzer.

In addition, there are pediatric intensive care units (PICU) in the Department of Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine; 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; Neurosurgical intensive care unit.

Other intensive care units

The patients admitted by MICU are all critically ill patients in various specialties of internal medicine, covering a variety of common and difficult diseases in various systems, including acute respiratory failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) respiratory failure, severe bronchial asthma, severe pulmonary infectious diseases, lung tumors, severe pulmonary interstitial diseases, pleural diseases, massive pulmonary embolism, sepsis, multiple organ failure, acute pancreatitis complicated with ARDS or acute cardiac insufficiency, and hepatic coma caused by various reasons.

CRRT is used to treat acute and chronic renal failure, severe lupus complicated with multiple organ dysfunction, hematological diseases, cerebrovascular diseases complicated with heart failure and severe pulmonary infection.

MICU provides strict, dynamic and accurate monitoring and timely and efficient treatment for critically ill patients, especially in respiratory management and mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic management, oxygen metabolism management, fluid management and nutritional support, and completes the monitoring, rescue, treatment and nursing of various critical situations such as respiratory failure, multiple organ failure and various shocks.

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