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intensive care | American Dictionary

intensive care
noun[ U ]
us/ɪnˈten·sɪv ˈkeər/
continuous treatment provided in a hospital for those who are extremely ill, or the department of a hospital that provides this care

Examples of intensive care

intensive care
There is no antitoxin available for human use and patients died in the 2000 cluster despite debridement, antibiotics and intensivecare.
For instance, the institutionalisation of a sibling can be a relief if she or he needed intensivecare.
Since 1991, he had spent 12 days in the intensivecare for treatment of atrial arrhythmias, but was never noted to be hypertensive.
However, in the intensivecare unit futility is in the eye of the few beholders who see patient care according to the curative mode.
For the interhospital transfer a mobile intensivecare unit, a bus, was used.
All patients reached the intensivecare unit in sinus rhythm and received standard doses of (5-10 urn/kg/ min) dopamine.
Following return to the intensivecare unit, ventricular function remained poor despite ionotropic support and the child died eight hours postoperatively.
Extubation was carried out at a median of 3 hours (30 minutes to 8 days) after arrival in the intensivecare unit.
In the intensivecare unit, the principal source of infection is through penetrating lines and catheters.
If the patient is intensivecare dependent, then anatomical repair is performed within a day or two.
Three pediatric fellows at each of the hospitals reviewed the medical records of all patients who died during 2002 in their pediatric intensivecare units.
Indicators of quality of life for older people and their caregivers also suggested that there were gains as a consequence of receiving intensivecare management.
Bacterial sepsis continues to be the leading cause of death in intensivecare units.
Despite these advances in neonatal intensivecare, mortality and morbidity remains high.
Speech and language skills in children who required neonatal intensivecare.
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