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单词 critical care
释义

critical care

noun

1
: the monitoring and treatment of critically ill or injured patients : intensive care
Critical care involves the use of life-sustaining, high-technology medicine catering to a patient population that extends to both extremes of age. In adult ICUs, the average age is increasing and is now commonly well over 60 years. Simon Finfer and Jean-Louis Vincent
2
: a designated area of a hospital providing critical care : intensive care unit
The death toll rose from six to at least 12, with scores of people needing hospital treatment and some in critical care. Heather Brooke
often hyphenated when used before another noun
critical-care nursinga critical-care bed
see also critical care unit

Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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