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  2. Intensive care unit - Wikipedia

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    Intensive care unit ICU patients often require mechanical ventilation if they have lost the ability to breathe normally.. An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive care medicine.

  3. Intensive care medicine - Wikipedia

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    Patients are admitted to the intensive care unit if their medical needs are greater than what the general hospital ward can provide. Indications for the ICU include blood pressure support for cardiovascular instability ( hypertension / hypotension ), sepsis , post-cardiac arrest syndrome or certain cardiac arrhythmias . [ 4 ]

  4. List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel

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    Abbreviation Organization or personnel AA: Alcoholics Anonymous: AABB: AABB, formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks: AACN: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses: AAD: American Association of Dermatology: AADGP: American Academy of Dental Group Practice: AAFP: American Academy of Family Physicians: AAIN: American ...

  5. Pediatric intensive care unit - Wikipedia

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    The first PICU in the United States is a topic often debated. Currently, Fuhrman’s Textbook in Pediatric Critical Care lists Pediatric Critical Care Unit at the Children’s Hospital of District of Columbia in Washington, DC, dating back to 1965, as the first pediatric critical care unit in the U.S.A. Medical Director was Dr. Berlin. [6]

  6. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    List of medical abbreviations: Overview; List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations

  7. Why ICU Medical Shares Soared - AOL

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    What: Shares of ICU Medical -- a medical device. Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're ...

  8. ICU Medical Recalls Certain Tracheostomy Tubes Due To ... - AOL

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    On Wednesday, ICU Medical Inc’s (NASDAQ:ICUI) subsidiary, Smiths Medical, initiated a recall of certain Bivona neonatal/pediatric and adult tracheostomy tubes. The FDA classified the recall as ...

  9. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").