: the continuous monitoring and treatment of critically ill or injured patients using special medical facilities, equipment, and services
Many of the sickest patients need intensive care, even to the point of being connected to a mechanical respirator. Lawrence K. Altman
2
: a designated area in a hospital providing intensive care : intensive care unit
heart patients in intensive care
… short of breath and feverish, doctors isolated him in intensive care. Elisabeth Rosenthal
—often hyphenated when used before another noun
an intensive-care nurse
Example Sentences
Her condition will require intensive care.
Recent Examples on the WebGrowing for the third day in a row, the number of the state's virus patients who were in intensive care rose Thursday by four, to 46. Andy Davis, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2022 There were 22 patients in intensive care Thursday, one more than last Thursday. Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022 That includes 31 people in intensive care, down four since Aug. 31.oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2022 Jeanine Kunkel had been the healthy twin, the one who came home from the hospital that day in 2008 while her brother James stayed a few nights in intensive care. Laura Reiley And Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022 Jeanine Kunkel had been the healthy twin, the one who came home from the hospital that day in 2008 while her brother James stayed a few nights in intensive care. Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022 Older adults who become severely ill from the virus are often treated with antibiotics in case there are bacteria in the lungs, Levy said, and may need to be placed in intensive care with supplemental oxygen. Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 25 Aug. 2022 Four of the wounded were transferred to the Clinical Center in Podgorica for surgery and were still in intensive care Saturday, according to its chief neurosurgeon, Dr. Ivan Terzic. Predrag Milic, ajc, 13 Aug. 2022 Anatoly Chubais, who resigned as a high-ranking adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin and left Russia shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, was reported to be in intensive care in a European hospital on Sunday for a neurological disorder. N'dea Yancey-bragg, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2022 See More