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Intensive Care

Critical care, also known as intensive care, is needed if someone is seriously ill with life-threatening conditions and requires intensive treatment and close monitoring. This is carried out in a ward called the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). These wards within the hospital are staffed with a multi-disciplinary healthcare team equipped and designed to closely monitor and treat patients with life-threatening conditions. Patients may need specialist treatment because one or more of their body systems, such as their heart, lung, or kidneys, are not working properly.

Because our patients are often very unwell, they will have much greater care needs than those patients being cared for on more general wards within the hospital. For this reason, each nurse will care for one patient only at a time and patients will be reviewed by different teams regularly.

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Article: “I had these strange dreams.”

What kinds of memories or dreams do people have? It is very common for patients to have strange memories, dreams or hallucinations. They can seem very real...so real, that no matter how strange they are, patients are often unsure whether they happened or not. They can often be remembered in detail for some time afterwards. The dreams that people have can sometimes be very frightening, but sometimes pleasant or funny. Here are some examples of other people's dreams.We hope they...

External Article: About End of Life in Intensive Care information sheet: ICU Steps

The story behind ICUsteps' newest information sheet - Catherine White

Article: Advanced Critical Care Practitioners (ACCPs)

Advanced Critical Care Practitioners (ACCPs) are clinical professionals responsible for patients' care during their ICU admission. They are highly experienced and educated practitioners who have developed their skills and theoretical knowledge to a very high standard.

Web Link: After birth (postnatal) information Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital

On this page, there is information about: General information Care after giving birth Infant feeding support Expressing breast milk Medicines and healthy breastfeeding Bottle feeding Tongue tie Safe sleep Relationship building with your baby Your mental health and emotional wellbeing

Web Link: After having ECMO

This weblink provides information on what to expect when recovering from an ECMO stay.

External Video: Almost everything you need to know about your kidneys: video by 'THINK KIDNEYS' campaign NHS UK

Almost everything you need to know about your kidneys

Web Link: Being in Intensive Care _ Intensive Care Society

The Intensive Care Society website provides some useful information for patients and families on being in intensive care.

Web Link: Bereavement and grieving support for children

Child Bereavement UK helps families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. We support children and young people (up to the age of 25) when someone important to them has died or is not expected to live, and parents and the wider family when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying. We offer free, confidential bereavement support for individuals, couples, children, young people, and families, by telephone, video or instant messenger, wherever you live in the...

Web Link: Bereavement charity supporting grieving children and families: Winston's wish

Winston’s Wish provides free digital bereavement information and support for children and young people across the UK who are grieving the death of someone important to them. We’re the UK’s first childhood bereavement charity and have been leading the way in young people’s grief support since 1992. To this day we reach over 80,000 bereaved children and young people across the UK every year. Please visit the website via the link provided

Form: Bereavement support

Bereavement is the experience of losing someone important to us and grief is the process and range of emotions felt as someone comes to terms with the death of a loved one. Bereavement, grief and loss can cause many different symptoms and affects people in different ways. Experts generally accept that we go through 5 stages of bereavement or grief: Denial – feelings of shock, disbelief, panic or confusion Anger – feelings and behaviours such as blaming yourself or...

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