Question 1

what is the average stay in intensive care?

Accepted Answer

It depends on condit: There is no average ICU length of stay, as it is dependant on the reason for the admission to icu.Icu admissions are mixed bag.There are post surgical admissions after major surgery, various medical conditions ranging from diabetic ketoacidosis, repiratory failiure on ventilater, multisystem failures, dehydration, multiple trauma, sepsis with shock and fall in BP etc.
So the stay can be 1day to i month.

Question 2

how can you recover from being in intensive care?

Accepted Answer

With care: Medical treatment for the basic condition or situation requiring admission to intensive care is the first part of recovery.  People have various responses to being in intensive care units, and can be very frightened, sleep-deprived, and delirious. Psychiatric consult services can help people while on these units, and with following up after discharge from them. Outpatient counseling can help too.

Question 3

can you tell me if laudonosine has any theraputic use in intensive care?

Accepted Answer

Laudonosine use: It is a muscle relaxant used on patients who are mechanically ventilated and is usually administered by a medical doctor.

Question 4

do patients in intensive care recover?

Accepted Answer

Depends why in ICU: It all depends on why they are in the intensive care unit.  Most patients do recover,  but certainly there are very ill patients that do not recover after being in the icu.  There are also those that have conditions that would not lead to a good quality of life.  Those patients do not recover.  But overall, the majority of ICU patients recover.

Question 5

i was wondering is a sanatorium similar to intensive care?

Accepted Answer

No: Sanatorium is more of a historical term here in the US.  They used to be centers which cared for patients suffering from chronic illnesses or those who needed long term care.  Some of the sanatoriums evolved into modern day hospitals.  The ICU provides patients with artificial life-support or resuscitation (pressure/volume. There are transitional care hospitals that provide long term life-support.

Question 6

if a child dies in an ambulance are they still taken to intensive care?

Accepted Answer

See below: If they are dead, then no. Certainly in the emergency room, they will try to revive the child.

Question 7

are most patients in an intensive care cathed and if so, why and is it embaressing?

Accepted Answer

ICU patients/cathete: When you are admitted to ICU and you are on IV fluids, you need to monitor fluid input and output, and monitor kidney functions., it is very important
so the only way you can monitor urinary output around the clock without asking the patients to save the urine and then chart it may be difficult, and when you are so sick to be in ICU why will you be embarassed.

Question 8

what is the delirium rating for intensive care unit?

Accepted Answer

Delirium rating: Patients in the intensive care unit can become quite disoriented.  There can be many reasons....Drugs, sleep deprivation, underlying dementia, depression, the disease(s) themselves, metabolic factors, etc.  The delirium rating scale is one way to try to quantify and discriminate the severity and contributing factors when delirium occurs.

Question 9

are intensive care and critical care the same thing?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Yes, there are different intensive care unit ( cardiovascular, surgical or medical). The physician practicing in these units are Critical Care physicians.

Question 10

what can i expect as a patient in an intensive care unit?

Accepted Answer

Intensive care: The patient experience varies between intensive care units. Certain factors than can affect this are visitation policies, presence of 24 hour in house intensivist coverage, whether it is a teaching institution (presence of residents, fellows, medical students), rounding policies (do rounds include families, are rounds multidisciplinary). Certain universal things are the presence of monitors/alarms.

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