Intensive Care Unit [ICU]

The special medical and nursing unit to which patients go for a few hours (or days) after major heart surgery or if they are extremely ill. This area is used to ensure very close monitoring, and ready availability of medical and nursing staff and equipment to cater for any emergency. It is available for seriously ill children, with a wide variety of medical problems, and for those who have had open heart operations, or other major heart surgery, especially if they need ‘ventilator’ treatment.