Intensive Care Units

An Intensive Care Unit (commonly referred to the ICU) is a department or section of a hospital that provides critical care medicine.

Intensive care units cater to patients with the most severe and life-threatening illnesses and injuries. Such illnesses and injuries require constant, close monitoring and support from specialised equipment and medication in order to maintain normal bodily functions. They are staffed by critical care physicians, trauma surgeons, and ICU nurses who specialise in caring for seriously or critically ill patients. Common conditions that are treated within ICU's include those such as trauma, multiple organ failure and sepsis.

Patients are normally transferred from the ER, post-surgery, or other departments from the hospital.

Notes and Trivia

 * Hospitals with specialises services have specialty ICU's that cater to those patients being treated by those specialised services.
 * Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
 * Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
 * Coronary Care Unit (CCU)
 * Post-Anaesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
 * Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (NeuroICU)
 * After being in a car accident, Callie Torres spent 12 weeks in the ICU recovering.
 * After his rescue from the woods and his initial stablisation at Boise Memorial Hospital, Mark was admitted into the ICU for his recovery. Despite a seemingly full recovery due to the surge, Mark prepared his affairs with Richard Webber, and soon after slipped into a coma. 30 days later, Mark, showing no improvement, was removed from life support and shortly died.