Intensive Care Unit [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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====== Intensive Care Unit ======


An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a specialized hospital department designed to provide comprehensive and continuous care to patients with life-threatening or critically unstable conditions that require close monitoring and support of vital organ functions.

Key Features:
24/7 Monitoring: Continuous surveillance of vital signs (e.g., heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation).

Advanced Equipment: Mechanical ventilators, infusion pumps, cardiac monitors, and dialysis machines.

Specialized Staff: Intensivists (critical care physicians), ICU nurses, respiratory therapists, and other trained personnel.

Organ Support: Support for one or more failing organ systems (e.g., respiratory failure, sepsis, post-surgical complications).

Typical ICU Patients:
Patients with severe infections (e.g., sepsis)

Those needing mechanical ventilation

Post-operative patients after major surgeries

Victims of trauma or neurological emergencies (e.g., brain injury, stroke)

Patients with cardiac arrest or shock