Synonyms for intensive care unit
in·ten·sive care unit

Princeton's WordNet

1. intensive care unit, ICUnoun

   a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care

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1. Rochelle Walensky:

   More concerning were the number of adolescents admitted to the hospital who required treatment in the intensive care unit with mechanical ventilation, it is these findings within this publication -- one that demonstrates the level of severe disease, even among youth, that are preventable -- that force us to redouble our motivation to get our adolescents and young adults vaccinated.

2. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams:

   I've shared myself personally that I have high blood pressure. That I have heart disease and spent a week in the( intensive care unit) due to a heart condition. That I actually have asthma and I'm pre-diabetic, and so I represent that legacy of growing up poor and black in America, i and many black Americans are at higher risk for Covid. It's why we need everyone to do their part to slow the spread.

3. Sebastian Pinera:

   We are very close to the limit because we have had a very large increase in the needs and demands for medical care, and for intensive care unit beds and ventilators.

4. Elizabeth Cherot:

   What happened in 2020 and 2021 compared with 2019 is Covid, this is sort of my reflection on this time period, Covid-19 and pregnancy. Women were at increased risk for morbidity and mortality from Covid. And that actually has been well-proven in some studies, showing increased risks of death, but also being ventilated in the intensive care unit, preeclampsia and blood clots, all of those things increasing a risk of morbidity and mortality.

5. Steven Brown:

   If the intensive care unit beds are all filled up with patients who are on ventilators because of their pneumonia, surgeries have to be postponed, we have situations where people may come into the hospital with a heart attack, and they have to stay in the emergency room for extended periods of time while waiting for a bed to open up.