intensive care

noun

|Updated on: 13 Aug 2018

Examples: intensive care in a Sentence

Definition of intensive care

1 : continuous monitoring and treatment of seriously ill patients using special medical equipment and services

2 : a unit in a hospital providing intensive care

heart patients in intensive care

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Examples of intensive care in a Sentence

Her condition will require intensive care.

Recent Examples of intensive care from the Web

Casanova wanted to unravel those tragic cases of flu, in which a child with no apparent underlying illness wound up in the intensive care unit.

— claudia wallis, Scientific American, "Extreme Flu? Weird Encephalitis? It May Be Your Genes," 13 July 2018
According to the page, Broder is in critical condition in the intensive care unit and has undergone multiple lifesaving operations.

— campbell lutz, ajc, "Country club shooting victim ID’d as manager of several restaurants in D.C. area," 13 July 2018
After surgery, Thompson was taken to an intensive care unit, where he was pronounced dead Thursday morning.

— lavendrick smith, charlotteobserver, "A Mecklenburg County inmate died. It’s the jail’s fourth death in two months.," 12 July 2018
Dozens of family members have stopped into his room in the intensive care unit.

— cleve wootson, chicagotribune.com, "A man went crabbing - and came back with flesh-eating bacteria that now threaten his life," 10 July 2018
Angel Perez, 60, has been in the intensive care unit of Cooper University Hospital since July 4, undergoing aggressive treatment with antibiotics in hopes of saving his arms and legs, said daughter Dilena Perez-Dilan.

— tom avril, Philly.com, "N.J. man infected with flesh-eating bacteria while crabbing, could lose limbs," 10 July 2018
But complications arose during delivery and sent the new mom to the intensive care unit.

— caitlyn richard, Fox News, "Dad 'breastfeeds' baby after mom suffers delivery complications," 3 July 2018
Sutter is undergoing an expansion to its Roseville hospital's emergency and intensive care unit, which will add a 97,000-square-foot building that is expected to open in 2020.

— kellen browning, sacbee, "Roseville, a health care ‘hub,’ anticipates more expansions," 30 June 2018
Over the next two days, 35 children died in the crowded intensive care units.

— parth m.n., latimes.com, "When an Indian hospital was running out of oxygen, these doctors tried to help. So why were they sent to jail?," 29 June 2018

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First Known Use of intensive care

1963

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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INTENSIVE CARE Defined for English Language Learners

intensive care

noun

Definition of intensive care for English Language Learners

: a section of a hospital where special medical equipment and services are provided for patients who are seriously injured or ill; also : the medical care provided in such a section

INTENSIVE CARE Defined for Kids

intensive care

noun

Definition of intensive care for Students

: constant observation and treatment of very ill patients in a special unit of a hospital

Medical Dictionary

intensive care

adjective

medical Definition of intensive care

: having special medical facilities, services, and monitoring devices to meet the needs of gravely ill patients

an intensive care unit

— compare acute care, chronic care

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intensive care

noun

- She required intensive care and survived without sequelae.
- —The Journal of the American Medical Association, 4 July 1986
- He spent several days in intensive care before recovering from the overdose.
- —Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2005