ICU is an intensive care unit, also known as the comprehensive treatment room of intensive care unit. Treatment, nursing and rehabilitation can be carried out simultaneously, providing isolated places and equipment for patients with severe or coma, and providing services such as best nursing, comprehensive treatment, combination of medical care and nursing, early postoperative rehabilitation, joint care and exercise therapy.

Target monitoring and supply, also known as intensive care unit. With the development of medical treatment, nursing and rehabilitation, the birth of new medical equipment and the improvement of hospital management system, it is a medical organization and management form integrating modern medical treatment, nursing and rehabilitation technology.

Only by concentrating critically ill patients in ICU and giving the best guarantee in manpower, material resources and technology can we get good treatment results. There is a central monitoring station in ICU, which can directly observe all the monitored beds.

Each bed covers a wide area, and the beds are separated by glass or cloth curtains. ICU is equipped with bedside monitors, central monitors, multifunctional respiratory therapy machines, anesthesia machines, electrocardiographs, defibrillators, pacemakers, infusion pumps, microinjectors, emergency equipment for tracheal intubation and tracheotomy, CPM combined with exercise therapy nurses and other equipment.

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1, severe trauma, after major surgery, need to continue to closely monitor and support vital signs;

2. Patients who need cardiopulmonary resuscitation;

3 organ failure (including heart, brain, lung, liver and kidney) or multiple organ failure;

4, severe shock, sepsis, poisoning, physical and chemical factors caused by critically ill patients;

5. Patients with severe multiple injuries and compound injuries.

6. Patients with myocardial infarction with serious complications, serious arrhythmia, acute heart failure and unstable angina pectoris.

7, a variety of postoperative critically ill patients or older, postoperative accidents may occur in critically ill patients.

8. Patients with severe water, electrolyte, osmotic pressure and acid-base imbalance.

9, patients with severe metabolic disorders, such as thyroid, adrenal, pituitary and other endocrine crisis patients.

10, patients who need monitoring and intensive treatment before and after organ transplantation. After the condition improved, he was transferred back to the general ward.

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