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Definition of Intensive care
1. Noun. Close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions.
Definition of Intensive care
1. Noun. (medicine) The support and monitoring of critically ill patients, especially by the use of instrumentation and specialized staff and equipment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Intensive care
1. Advanced and highly specialised care provided to medical or surgical patients whose conditions are life-threatening and require comprehensive care and constant monitoring. It is usually administered in specially equipped units of a health care facility. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intensive Care
Literary usage of Intensive care
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Health Care Technology And Its Assessment In Eight Countries edited by H. David Banta (2004)
"NEONATAL intensive care Specialized clinics, fully equipped for neonatal intensive
care, appeared in Sweden during the 1960s and gradually spread. ..."
2. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Fredric Solomon (1986)
"intensive care Beds There are 62000 intensive care beds in the United States (including
pediatric and cardiac beds and excluding neonatal beds).23 The same ..."
3. Medicaid Managed Care Mmc: States Safeguards for Children With Special Needs by Walter Ochinko, Karen Doran (2000)
"... intensive care centers, which are specialized units within hospitals with a
full range of newborn intensive care services.18 Contract requirements. ..."
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