: a unit in a hospital providing intensive care for critically ill or injured patients that is staffed by specially trained medical personnel and has equipment that allows for continuous monitoring and life support
Our patients were without question seriously ill. This reflects the selection of more serious, life-threatening attempts for admission to the intensive care unit. Theodore A. Stern et al.
The array of equipment that is now so familiar a part of intensive care units sustains lives that previously would have been lost. Franz J. Ingelfinger