What is the function of the ICU in the hospital?

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The article is professionally consulted by Master, Doctor Phan Ngoc Toan - Emergency Medicine Doctor - Emergency Department - Vinmec Danang International Hospital.
Emergency room ICU is a concept given to talk about an emergency unit in a hospital, which performs intensive and thorough care techniques with patients who are in an extremely serious and potentially serious illness. potentially life-threatening to the patient.

1. What is an ICU?

The ICU is also known as the intensive care unit for patients who are in critical condition and need intensive care and monitoring, especially needing complex respiratory support. The ICU is equipped with a team of highly qualified medical staff with long-term experience in the field of resuscitation on duty 24 hours a day to promptly handle dangerous problems during the patient's treatment at the hospital. intensive care unit.
Some of the medical conditions that the ICU emergency room can handle, treat and get the patient out of a life-threatening crisis can be listed as follows:
Patient with multiple organ failure, septic shock , electrocution, electrolyte disturbance, asphyxia, multiple trauma or snakebite can be resuscitated in the ICU emergency room. Patients experiencing drug poisoning or poisoning with some chemicals such as pesticides, Paraquat... will be anti-poisoning. Patients with severe burns or burn shock. Patients with cardiogenic shock, myocardial infarction disease, severe heart failure, acute pulmonary edema, arrhythmia, malignant hypertension Patient has severe pneumonia, malignant bronchial asthma , exacerbations of COPD, atelectasis. .. Patients with severe gastrointestinal bleeding, hepatic coma, cirrhosis, acute pancreatitis, diarrhea leading to dehydration, fulminant viral hepatitis, drug-induced hepatitis... Patients with renal failure level or level above the side platform. The patient suffered from some neurological diseases such as cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre syndrome... The patient encountered a coma caused by diabetes mellitus, thyroid storm or adrenal insufficiency...

2. ICU emergency room

The ICU emergency room is a place to ensure the life of the patient, so it requires complete and advanced equipment, combined with a team of medical staff with high expertise in this field. The electrical equipment in the ICU emergency room is installed on the ceiling, so that the beds in this unit do not need to be connected to the wall as a feature of the ward as this setting allows the medical staff to can move quickly and turn the bed also becomes easier, can place the bed in the most convenient position for emergency and resuscitation of the patient. In terms of location, the ICU emergency room is usually arranged close to the surgery area to be able to receive patients after surgery if a dangerous condition occurs during and after surgery for the patient.
A problem that is being noticed today is infection during the patient's hospital stay. Some studies have shown that 3 in 10 patients in the ICU emergency room will experience an infection during their stay in this department, which makes the condition worse. and forcing patients to need longer-term treatment. Infections in the ICU emergency room increase patient mortality and disability for many years, and not to mention significantly increased length of stay and hospital costs affecting the lives of many difficult patients. economic hardship. Therefore, it is necessary to thoroughly apply procedures to help prevent infection in the ICU emergency room as well as the spread of bacteria in this unit. One of the measures that is being noticed today to reduce the danger of infection in the department is to switch to a separate form of facilities instead of the common ones as before to limit the spread of bacteria as well. like yeast in the patient's hospital space. In addition, some other features of facilities required at the ICU emergency room are hospital beds in a system of separate rooms, designed in accordance with established regulations and equipped with isolation rooms using pressurized technology. negative force.

In addition to modern and standard equipment, medical staff and patient care in the ICU emergency room are also extremely important. Doctors and nurses working in ICU emergency rooms must be qualified, well-trained and experienced in the field of resuscitation to be able to give the fastest treatment to patients. Regarding the care regimen, patients treated in the intensive care unit besides regular medical care will be fed by mouth or by mouth by medical staff with a special nutritional regimen given. by nutritionists. Patients will be cared for by medical staff as well as regular personal hygiene to prevent infection from occurring. A special thing is that the patient's relatives and family will not be involved in the care and hygiene of the patient during the treatment at the ICU emergency room, but all these tasks will be completely assigned to the patient. medical staff with expertise in the department.
ICU emergency room is a very necessary and important treatment department in any hospital because it is equipped with modern machinery and qualified staff to be able to treat and provide special care. especially for patients who are in the critical stage of many diseases in all organ systems in the body.
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