What does icu mean?

ICU is the abbreviation of intensive care unit, which means "intensive care unit".

ICU is the intensive care unit, also known as the comprehensive treatment room of intensive care unit. Treatment, nursing and rehabilitation can be carried out at the same time, providing isolated places and equipment for patients with severe or coma, and providing services such as best nursing, comprehensive treatment, combination of medical care and nursing, early postoperative rehabilitation, joint care and exercise therapy.

Targeted monitoring and supply, also known as intensive care unit. With the development of medical treatment, nursing and rehabilitation, the birth of new medical equipment and the improvement of hospital management system, it is a medical organization and management form integrating modern medical treatment, nursing and rehabilitation technology.

ICU concentrates on critically ill patients and provides the best guarantee in manpower, material resources and technology to obtain good treatment effect. ICU has a central monitoring station, which can directly observe all monitored beds. Each bed occupies a large area, and the beds are separated by glass or curtains.

ICU is equipped with bedside monitor, central monitor, multifunctional respiratory therapeutic apparatus, anesthesia machine, electrocardiograph, defibrillator, pacemaker, infusion pump, micro-syringe, emergency equipment for tracheal intubation and tracheotomy, CPM combined with exercise therapy nurses and other equipment.

Development history

1, ICU has a history of more than 30 years in the world, and now it has become a rescue center for critically ill patients in hospitals. ICU monitoring level and advanced equipment have become an important symbol to measure the level of a hospital.

2. ICU in China started in the early 1980s and developed rapidly. At present, hospitals above the second level in China must be equipped with intensive care units.

3. At the end of 1970s, with the reform and opening up in China, advanced medical and nursing technologies were brought back to China.

4. In 1980s, the initial stage of ICU in China was mainly manifested in the establishment of intensive care specialty.

5. In 1990s, the establishment of ICU became an embodiment of treating critically ill patients and an important symbol of hospital modernization.

6. Since 2000, the development of critical care medicine has been more systematic and standardized, especially the development of hospitals has shown its influence on the international stage.