Yes ! It is serious, Any visit to the intensive care unit should be taken as being serious. What are all those machines and monitors hooked up to him.
The intensive care unit has many pieces of life saving equipment and monitors. Below is a list of some of the equipment.
1. Patient monitoring
2. Cardiac monitoring
3. Respiratory devices
4. Pain management
5. Resuscitation equipment for emergencies
Seriously injured patients that require life support equipment it is available. If a life threatening or critical illness occurs the intensive care has all the necessary equipment. If you need 24 hour monitoring after surgery , intensive care is there to help.
Patient Monitoring:
Patient monitoring is continuously . The physiologic monitoring provides and displays many parameter that are applied to the critical patient. They are responsible for monitoring the activity of the heart ; breathing rate; blood pressure of the patient; cardiac output ; and the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood.. Each bed in the intensive care unit has physiologic monitoring to measure the above body activities. This information can...