
Critical Care
Critical care is medical
care for people who have life- hanging injuries and ails. It generally takes
place in an ferocious care unit( ICU). A platoon of especially- trained health
care providers gives you 24- hour care. This includes using machines to
constantly cover your vital signs. It also generally involves giving you
technical treatments.
In a critical care unit, health care providers use
lots of different outfit, including
• Catheters, flexible tubes used to get fluids
into the body or to drain fluids from the body
• Dialysis machines(" artificial
feathers") for people with order failure
• Feeding tubes, which give you nutritive support
• Intravenous( IV) tubes to give you fluids and
drugs
• Machines which check your vital signs and
display them on observers
• Oxygen remedy to give you redundant oxygen to
breathe in
• Tracheostomy tubes, which are breathing tubes. The tube is placed in a
surgically made hole that goes through the front of the neck and into the
windpipe..
These machines can help keep you alive, but
numerous of them can also raise your threat of infection.
occasionally people in a critical care unit aren't
suitable to communicate. It's important that you have
an advance directive in place. This can help your health care providers and family
members make important opinions, including end- of- life opinions, if you
aren't suitable to make them.