INTENSIVE CARE

Terminology description

Intensive care is also referred as critical care. It is a branch of medicine that deals mainly with provisions available for life support or body parts like organ systems support who are fighting against their lives. Patient under critical care require intensive observation.

Need for intensive care

Intensive care support is given for the patients who are suffering from

• Instability hemodynamic
• Hypertension
• Hypotension
• Respiratory problems
• Renal failure
• Lethal disease
• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Failure of multiple organ
• Dysfunctional syndrome

Intensive care is given for individuals who require support for improved health and survival. Intensive nursing care gives a chance for an ill patient to extend their survival life time. Admission to intensive care unit is restricted to the patients only on emergency grounds. There are many instances where patients die in intensive care unit. Correlation between volume of intensive care unit and quality of nursing care provided to the patients is directly proportional to need for requirement.

Organ systems require intensive care

The human system requires intensive nursing care only by systematic approach towards treatment. General human systems which require intensive care are of nine types.

• Central nervous system
• Cardiovascular system
• Respiratory system
• Gastro intestinal system
• Immune system
• Renal system
• Circulatory system
• Endocrine system
• Microbiology & hematology

Issues raised by intensive nursing care

Intensive treatment care has raised major issues that are mentioned below.

• Pressure
• Physiotherapy
• Psychology of an individual
• Induced anxiety and worries
• Infections that are plausible

Types of intensive care unit

Medical equipments that are utilized to provide intensive nursing cares are as follows.

• Critical care unit (CCU)
• Intensive care unit (ICU)
• Surgical intensive care unit (SICU)
• Surgical trauma intensive care unit (STICU)
• Coronary intensive care unit (CICU)
• Cardiac surgery intensive care unit (CSICU)
• Overnight intensive recovery (OIR)
• Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
• Shock/trauma intensive care unit (STICU)
• Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)
• Neuroscience critical care unit (NCCU)
• Mobile intensive care unit (MICU)
• Geriatric intensive care unit (GICU)
• Burn intensive care unit (BICU)
• Respiratory intensive care unit (RICU)
• Psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU)
• Special care nursery (SCN)
• Trauma neuro critical care intensive care unit (TNCC)