intensive care unit

See also: intensive-care unit

English

Alternative forms

• intensive-care unit

Pronunciation

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Noun

intensive care unit (plural intensive care units)

2. (medicine) A part of a hospital into which critically ill patients, in danger of dying, are admitted and closely monitored.

   Synonyms: critical ward, ICU (initialism), CCU, ITU

Usage notes

• In colloquial usage this term is often elliptically shortened to intensive care; the abbreviation ICU tends to be used by the medical profession.

Translations

hospital ward for critically ill patients

• Afrikaans: waakeenheid
• Arabic: وَحَدة العِنَايَة المُرَكَّزة f (waḥadat al-ʕināyat al-murakkaza)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܕܵܝܘܼܬܐ ܕܝܲܨܝܼܦܘܼܬܵܐ ܩܫܝܼܬܵܐ f (ḥdāyutā d-yaṣīputā qšītā)

• Armenian: ինտենսիվ թերապիայի բաժանմունք (intensiv tʻerapiayi bažanmunkʻ), վերակենդանացման և ինտենսիվ թերապիայի բաժանմունք (verakendanacʻman ew intensiv tʻerapiayi bažanmunkʻ)
• Basque: zainketa intentsiboetako unitatea
• Bengali: নিবিড় পরিচর্যা কেন্দ্র (bn) (nibiṛ poricorja kendro)
• Catalan: unitat de cures intensives f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 深切治療部 / 深切治疗部 (sam¹ cit³ zi⁶ liu⁴ bou⁶)

  Hokkien: 加護病房 / 加护病房 (ka-hō͘-pēⁿ-pâng)

  Mandarin: 監護病房 / 监护病房 (jiānhù bìngfáng), 重症監護室 / 重症监护室 (zh) (zhòngzhèng jiānhùshì), 重病監護室 / 重病监护室 (zhòngbìng jiānhùshì), 加護病房 / 加护病房 (zh) (jiāhù bìngfáng)

• Czech: jednotka intenzivní péče (cs)
• Danish: intensiv afdeling, intensivafdeling c
• Dutch: intensive care (nl) m (Netherlands, Suriname), intensievezorgafdeling f (Belgium)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: teho-osasto (fi)
• French: unité de soins intensifs, unité de traitement intensif, soins intensifs (fr) m pl
• German: Intensivstation (de) f
• Hebrew: יחידה לטיפול נמרץ
• Hungarian: intenzív terápiás osztály, intenzív osztály, ITO
• Icelandic: gjörgæsludeild (is) f
• Indonesian: ruang perawatan intensif
• Italian: unità di terapia intensiva f
• Japanese: 集中治療室 (ja) (しゅうちゅうちりょうしつ, shūchūchiryōshitsu)
• Khmer: អង្គភាពថែទាំដែលពឹងផ្អែកខ្លាំង (ʼɑɑngkɔɔphiəpthaetŏəmdaelpɨngphʼaekkhlang)
• Korean: 집중 치료실 (jipjung chiryosil)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: intensyviosios terapijos skyrius m, intensyviosios priežiūros skyrius m
• Malay: unit rawatan rapi
• Māori: wāhanga whāomoomo
• Persian: بخش مراقبت‌های ویژه (fa) (baxš-e morâqebat-hâye viže)
• Polish: oddział intensywnej terapii, oddział intensywnej opieki medycznej m, OIOM (pl) m
• Portuguese: unidade de terapia intensiva (Brazil), unidade de cuidados intensivos f (Portugal)
• Romanian: unitate de terapie intensivă f
• Russian: отделе́ние реанима́ции и интенси́вной терапи́и n (otdelénije reanimácii i intɛnsívnoj terapíi)
• Spanish: unidad de cuidados intensivos f
• Swedish: intensivvårdsavdelning (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yoğun bakım ünitesi (tr)
• Urdu: شعبہ انتہائی نگہداشت (śo'ba-e-intihā'ī nigahdāśt)
• Vietnamese: phòng chăm sóc tích cực, phòng săn sóc tích cực, phòng hồi sức tích cực

Further reading

• intensive care unit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia