Same thing: Different hospitals have different terms for specialized care units that take care of the sickest patients.
Answered 4/25/2014
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Interchangeable: The terms are essentially interchangeable. Critical care and intensive care are both used to describe a unit or medical specialty in which seriously ill or injured people receive care. These units may be general critical care or intensive care units that care for a wide variety of conditions, or neonatal, pediatric, adult, cardiac, surgical. Or neurosugical units.
Answered 12/22/2014
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They are the same: An intensive care unit is the same as a critical care unit. Different hospitals call it different things.
Answered 10/3/2016
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