An Intensive
Care Unit (ICU), Critical-Care Unit (CCU),
Intensive-Therapy
Unit/Intensive-Treatment Unit (ITU) is a
specialized department in a hospital
that provides intensive care medicine.
Many hospitals also have designated
intensive-care areas for certain
specialties of medicine, depending on
the needs and resources of the hospital.
Specialized types of ICUs
include:
-
Neonatal
Intensive Care
Unit (NICU)
-
Special-Care
Nursery (SCN)
-
Pediatric
Intensive Care
Unit (PICU)
-
Psychiatric
Intensive Care
Unit (PICU)
-
Coronary Care
Unit (CCU)
-
Cardiac Surgery
intensive-care
unit (CSICU)
-
Cardiovascular
intensive-care
unit (CVICU)
-
Medical
intensive-care
unit (MICU)
-
Medical Surgical
intensive-care
unit (MSICU)
-
Surgical
intensive-care
unit (SICU)
-
Surgical
intensive-therapy
(SIT)
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-
Overnight
intensive
recovery (OIR)
-
Neurotrauma
intensive-care
unit (NICU)
-
Neurointensive-care
unit (NICU)
-
Burn Wound
Intensive Care
Unit(BWICU)
-
Trauma
Intensive-care
Unit (TICU)
-
Surgical Trauma
intensive-care
unit (STICU)
-
Trauma-Neuro
Critical Care (TNCC)
-
Respiratory
intensive-care
unit (RICU)
-
Geriatric
Intensive Care
Unit (GICU)
-
Mobile
Intensive-Care
Unit (MICU)
-
Post Anaesthesia
Care Unit (PACU)
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