Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) are special sections in a healthcare facility where extremely critical patients needing continuous monitoring or life-support systems are admitted. These are temperature-controlled environments with minimal access to outsiders.
An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as a critical care unit (CCU), intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive care medicine.
Intensive Care Units cater to patients with the most severe and life-threatening illnesses and injuries; that require constant, close monitoring and support from specialist equipment and medication in order to maintain normal bodily functions. They are staffed by highly trained doctors and critical care nurses who specialize in caring for seriously ill patients. Common conditions that are treated within ICU's include trauma, multiple organ failure and sepsis.
Many hospitals have a transitional High Dependency Unit (HDU) for patients who require close observation, treatment and nursing care that cannot be provided on a general ward, but whose care is not at a critical enough level to warrant an ICU bed. These units are also called step-down, progressive and intensive recovery units and are utilized until a patient's condition stabilizes enough to qualify them for discharge to a general ward.
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