INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or Critical Care Unit (CCU) is a specialised facility in a hospital that provides intensive care medicine.

Many hospitals also have designated intensive care areas for certain specialities of medicine, as dictated by the needs and available resources of each hospital.The naming is not rigidly standardized. Specialized types of ICUs include and the:

Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Coronary Care Unit (CCU) for heart disease
Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU)
Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit (CSICU)
Neuroscience Critical Care Unit (NCCU)
Overnight Intensive Recovery (OIR)
Neuro Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Burn Wounds Intensive Care Unit