Why Would A Patient Go To The ICU? | ICU Basics
Why do patients come to the ICU? What is the criteria to be admitted to the intensive care unit?
Let's talk about why someone would end up in the intensive care you. I briefly discuss the different patient areas in the hospital, highlight the different types of ICUs (there's a few!), and then we talk about the thought process that goes into deciding to transfer a patient to the intensive care unit.
TIME STAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:27 Hospital Bed Types
03:09 Types of ICUs
04:08 Reasons for ICU
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Thank you for watching! Let me know what questions you have about the ICU!
Very informative breakdown of a confusing topic for patients! Keep the videos coming!
@TheIntenseMD
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching! I hope you enjoy the rest of the ICU basics series. 🤩
You explained ICU very well.
As a patient, I hate it, I hate hate hate hate it! I know where I'm going, and I abhor it. nothing against the people, just hate everything that's done, it's all painful and unconfortable :(
I don't know if this is standard practice, but I got sent into ICU when I had so bad kidney infection my body started shutting down. I spent less than 72 hours in the ICU, but they kept me there hooked on machines while waiting to get all the tests and images done in order to make the decision if they needed to remove my kidneys. After that they trasferred me to IC, and then to regular beds - and when I got home I still was treated with IV antibiotics as an outpatient. I was just wondering if it is normal to be in the ICU in situations like these, where the reasoning is " a high risk of shock reaction and monitoring for emergency surgery " ? If it matters I live in Europe with essentially free healthcare. Ps, I love how informative your videos are!
LOL at the Med/ Surg RN ratio. It's like 5 or 6 to 1
Excellent information 👌
@TheIntenseMD
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!! I appreciate it.
I had two family members going into ICU. Both time they died.
Are internal medicine icu specialists good at handling ventilators as the anaesthesia icu specialist? If not we internal med icu can learn that as well right during critical care fellowship?
@TheIntenseMD
2 жыл бұрын
Internal medicine residents learn about the vent during their training as well. We rotated through the ICU during residency. In critical care fellowship, we learned basic and advanced ventilator modes and settings. It doesn't matter what your background is going into the fellowship program, by the time you are finished you will know how to manage the ventilator. Thank you for watching. I hope this answered your question.
My hospital we are 7-8:1 and we are a Level 1 trauma center!!
What about people with sepsis
@TheIntenseMD
Жыл бұрын
Yes! Sepsis is a very common ICU diagnosis. Sepsis can become septic shock - which would require life support. Thank for your question!
Thank you for breaking ICU stuff in layman's term. I realized health literacy in the country is terrible.
@TheIntenseMD
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching! My goal is to teach anyone who wants to learn about the ICU and medicine in general.