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. Anne Funk:

   We would like to help wherever we can, we do not want to differentiate between nationalities. At the moment we still have capacities. We are coordinating with medical and local authorities in France on an individual needs basis. We are here to help.'' For now they can continue to do that, but with Germany's ICUs filling up quickly, it's not clear for how much longer.Nurses tend to patients in the coronavirus intensive care unit of the University Hospital Dresden, November 13, 2020. {.

2. William Schaffner:

   But we do think that being attacked by two viruses, particularly if you are less than five years of age, it’s been clearly demonstrated by this study, it does tend to make your illness more severe, more likely to be prolonged in the hospital, more likely to be in the pediatric intensive care unit, and so clearly, having your lungs and your throat and your body – generally your immune system – attacked by two viruses simultaneously, understandably might make some young children more severely ill.

3. 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.

4. Patricia Stinchfield:

   You've got to understand how this spreads, and you want to know what people's symptoms are and who's having mild versus severe disease. How many people are hospitalized ? How many in the intensive care unit ?

5. 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.