intensive care

See also: intensive-care

English

Noun

intensive care (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The support and monitoring of critically ill patients, especially by the use of instrumentation and specialized staff and equipment.

Derived terms

• intensive care unit, ICU

Translations

support and monitoring of critically ill patients

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特別監護, 特别监护 (tèbié jiānhù)

• Finnish: tehohoito

• French: soins intensifs m pl, traitement intensif m
• Russian: интенси́вная терапи́я f (intɛnsívnaja terapíja), интенси́вный ухо́д m (intɛnsívnyj uxód), реанима́ция (ru) f (reanimácija)
• Swedish: intensivvård c

Further reading

• intensive care on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• intensive care at OneLook Dictionary Search