Intensive care units (ICUs) are specialist hospital wards that provide treatment and monitoring for people who are very ill. They're staffed with specially trained healthcare professionals and contain sophisticated monitoring equipment. ICUs are also sometimes called critical care units (CCUs) or intensive therapy units (ITUs).

Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are for patients who need additional support that cannot be provided in a normal ward setting. Intensive Care can be a difficult experience for both patients and their families. Fortunately, there are a number of resources online to help support and prepare you.

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Also known as ‘intensive care units’ (ICUs) or ‘intensive treatment/therapy units’ (ITUs). CCU is sometimes used as the umbrella term for both level-3 (ICU) and level-2 (HDU) services.

In the UK, provision of follow-up and recovery services following critical illness are embedded in national rehabilitation guidelines published in 2009 that advocate a continuum of multiprofessional input spanning the recovery pathway from intensive care unit (ICU) admission to community stages. 12 13 Considered the ‘gold standard’ for ...

The Intensive Care Society is the representative body in the UK for intensive care professionals and patients and is dedicated to the delivery of the highest quality of critical care to patients.

Level 3 - Intensive Care Unit (ICU/ITU). This level of care is for patients requiring two or more organ support (or needing mechanical ventilation alone). This level of critical care is staffed with one nurse per patient and usually with an intensive care doctor present in the unit 24 hours per day. Private ICU

There is a large team of specially-trained healthcare professionals that deliver critical care treatment and care to patients to support them through their critical illness. Patients may require admission to critical care if they become seriously ill, or to help them recover after major surgery.

Patients who require very intensive treatment, close monitoring and frequent nursing care, either after major surgery or as a consequence of serious injury or illness, are cared for in special wards called intensive care units. They are often abbreviated to ICUs. Ward clerk on duty from 06:00 - …

The commonest three reasons for admission were pneumonia (7.6%), aortic or iliac dissection or aneurysm (4.4%) and large bowel tumour (4.2%). In the UK, the mean APACHE score is 16.5 (ICNARC 2004b) and the ICU mortality approximately 20% with a further 9% of patients dying before leaving hospital (ICNARC 2004a).