Emergency & Critical Care Hospital

ICU stands for the Intensive Care Unit. This is a special department in any hospital or a healthcare facility or clinic that specializes in providing emergency treatment and intensive care to the patients.

Intensive care is needed if someone is seriously ill and requires emergency treatment and close monitoring, or if they’re having surgery and intensive care can help them recover.

There are many different conditions and situations that can mean someone needs intensive care. These include:

• Critically ill patients in a medically unstable state require an intensive level of care (monitoring and treatment).
• Patients requiring intensive monitoring may also require emergency interventions.
• Patients who are medically unstable or critically ill and who do not have much chance for recovery due to the severity of their illness or traumatic injury.

A ventilator helps a person breathe when they find it difficult or are unable to breathe on their own. A tube is placed into a patient’s mouth, through the vocal cords, and into their chest near the right and left lung. Air is pumped down the tube, which helps move oxygen and nitrogen in and out of the lungs. This is standard equipment that is used in Emergency ICUs to help support the patients until they recover.

ICUs or Intensive Care Units can be of different types based on different departments or conditions treated. Some of the types of ICUs are:

• Medical Intensive Care Unit
• Surgical Intensive Unit
• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

ICU is the general term for any critical care unit where patients with a critical health condition or usually after an operation or surgery are kept for high-level care and monitoring while CCU on the other hand, is a more specific critical care unit that is particularly for the patients suffering from a cardiac disorder.