An intensive care unit is specially designed to provide medical care and nursing to patients whose medical condition is or could become life-threatening. These include accident victims with serious injuries, patients who have recently undergone surgery and patients with acute illnesses such as stroke, sepsis, pulmonary embolism or with organ failure. Physicians who care for patients in an intensive care unit have additional training in critical care medicine.
Intensive care monitoring
Intensive Care Therapy
An intensive care unit is equipped with special therapeutic devices that are often necessary for critically ill patients. These include ventilators, heart-lung machines, feeding tubes, electronically controlled syringe pumps for administering medication and painkillers, and resuscitation equipment.
Intensive Care
The care of intensive care patients is particularly demanding and time-consuming. In critical moments, nursing staff must be able to react quickly and competently. Physically, intensive care patients also need special care – they have to be washed and re-bedded, they need to be talked to and given attention. To meet these requirements, the nursing staff in an intensive care unit are specially trained in monitoring and caring for intensive care patients.
