INTENSIVE CARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intensive care mean? 

• INTENSIVE CARE (noun)
  The noun INTENSIVE CARE has 1 sense:

1. close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions

  Familiarity information: INTENSIVE CARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTENSIVE CARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("intensive care" is a kind of...):

medical aid; medical care (professional treatment for illness or injury)

 Context examples 

The study reinforces growing concerns about the risk and possible benefits of diuretics, which are one of the most commonly prescribed classes of medications in the neonatal intensive care unit.

(Diuretic therapy for extremely preterm infants does not alleviate respiratory problems, National Institutes of Health)

Patients may do better if it is recognized early and they get medical care in an intensive care unit.

(Hantavirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

This brief exposure to low oxygen occurs frequently in preterm babies receiving care in a neonatal intensive care unit.

(Lack of Oxygen, Not Blood Flow, Delays Brain Maturation in Preterm Infants, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They recruited critically ill patients from pediatric intensive care units in the United States, Canada, France, Italy, and Israel.

(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)

Critical care usually takes place in an intensive care unit (ICU) or trauma center.

(Critical Care, NIH)

A health care facility unit that provides intensive care to critically ill patients and patients with complex medical problems who require constant monitoring or special therapy.

(Intensive Care Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

Sepsis is a leading cause of death in hospital intensive care units.

(Electroacupuncture Reduces Sepsis in Mice, NIH)

With intensive care, the child survived numerous bouts of severe illness, and her health improved as her immune system matured and formed protective antibodies against various infectious agents.

(Scientists discover rare genetic susceptibility to common cold, National Institutes of Health)

Physicians have been prescribing vitamin D in premature and preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) to prevent rickets, a disease that causes soft, weak bones in children and is often associated with vitamin D deficiency.

(Higher Dose of Vitamin D Increases Bone Density in Premature Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from Granada has warned for the first time of the presence of bisphenol A (BPA) and parabens (PBs) in a wide range of plastic medical devices, fabrics, personal care products (including topical creams), and nutritional supplements in hospital neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), coming into direct contact with new-born babies.

(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)