ICU Inventor

Intensive care unit · Inventor Bjørn Aage Ibsen ICU - Intensive Care Unit Intensive care refers to specialized treatment that is needed for patients with server health issues or injuries that are life-threatening. An Intensive care Unit (ICU) provides critical care and life support for the really upset and injured patients. What is an ICU? An ICU is also known as ITU (intensive therapy unit) or Critical care unit (CCU). A patient who is not in an emergency case will need a doctor's reference to being admitted to an ICU. In the Intensive Care Unit, all the staff, doctors, physicians are highly trained and specialized in caring and treating critical patients. ICU is also used for general ward patients for the medical equipment not available anywhere else in the hospital. Patients who need to be monitored after a critical surgery are also shifted from operation theatre to ICU for special care. History of ICU In 1854, Florence Nightingale took care of the soldiers who wer...