INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intensive care unit mean? 

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

1. a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ICU; intensive care unit

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

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intensive care unit"):

coronary care unit (a hospital unit specially staffed and equipped to treat patients with serious cardiac problems)

neonatal intensive care unit; NICU (an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn)

Holonyms ("intensive care unit" is a part of...):

hospital (a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care)

 Context examples 

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)

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)

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)

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

(Electroacupuncture Reduces Sepsis in Mice, NIH)

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)

Researchers used high-speed DNA sequencing and advanced computational analysis to study stool samples from 32 infants born very preterm who received antibiotic treatment for 21 months (in the neonatal intensive care unit and after discharge), nine infants born very preterm who received antibiotics for less than a week, and 17 healthy term and late preterm infants who hadn’t received antibiotics.

(Prolonged antibiotic treatment may alter preterm infants’ microbiome, 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)