Synonyms for intensive care
in·ten·sive care

Princeton's WordNet

1. intensive carenoun

   close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions

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1. • Medical Care

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1. Patricia Stinchfield:

   You've got to understand how this spreads, and you want to know what people's symptoms are and who's having mild versus severe disease. How many people are hospitalized ? How many in the intensive care unit ?

2. William Schaffner:

   But we do think that being attacked by two viruses, particularly if you are less than five years of age, it’s been clearly demonstrated by this study, it does tend to make your illness more severe, more likely to be prolonged in the hospital, more likely to be in the pediatric intensive care unit, and so clearly, having your lungs and your throat and your body – generally your immune system – attacked by two viruses simultaneously, understandably might make some young children more severely ill.

3. Le Guen:

   Intensive care techniques in these extreme ages of life raise the question of an artificial prolongation of life and can be perceived by some as therapeutic relentlessness, therapeutics used in the ICU are uncomfortable.

4. The CDC:

   In addition to weakness, common symptoms at clinical evaluation were gait difficulty( 52 %), neck or back pain( 47 %), fever( 35 %), and limb pain( 34 %), overall, 98 % of patients were hospitalized, 54 % were admitted to an intensive care unit, and 23 % required endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation.

5. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams:

   I've shared myself personally that I have high blood pressure. That I have heart disease and spent a week in the( intensive care unit) due to a heart condition. That I actually have asthma and I'm pre-diabetic, and so I represent that legacy of growing up poor and black in America, i and many black Americans are at higher risk for Covid. It's why we need everyone to do their part to slow the spread.