intensive care unit

Example Sentences

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There are no beds in the paediatric intensive care unit, but the team get on the road anyway.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have called for a transparent investigation into the killing of Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse working at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026

Salehuddin Ahmed, who holds the finance portfolio in the interim government, said the economy had shifted from the "intensive care unit to the high dependency unit".

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

For three months, she spent each day in the neonatal intensive care unit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

She has worked high-stress assignments in telemetry— monitoring cardiac patients—and in the intensive care unit.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times