short for Intensive Care
Unit.
ICU is a place in a hospital where they place a person who'
[s in very critical condition so he/she can be closely monitored, and if necessary p0laced in care. They have care from the least critical like
people who had a heart attack, and are breathing, and are
fine, but need to be monitored closely, to the sickest of the sickest patients who require complete bodily functional support from a ventilator, ECMO, and lots of other machines.
1. He'
s in ICU, and they have him on the jet ventilator.
2. What'
s going on with him?
3. He'
s probably not going to survive. He's in severe ARDS.