About Critical Care
Adult Critical Care services include both High Dependency Care (sometimes called Level 2 care) and Intensive Care (or Level 3 care). Critical Care is usually delivered in dedicated Units within the hospital called High Dependency Units (HDUs) and Intensive Care Units (ICUs, also sometimes referred to as Intensive Therapy Units(ITUs) although in some hospitals these may be combined into a single Unit.
Patients requiring Critical Care are usually very ill and require close attention and monitoring. The sickest patients are in ICUs and may, for example, need advanced respiratory support or have two or more organ systems (such as cardiac, neurological or respiratory etc.) that need supporting simultaneously. Most Critical Care Units in most NHS hospitals are equipped to deal with patients’ suffering from a range of different clinical conditions but some hospitals do have specialist Critical Care Units dealing with particular specialisms such as oncology, neurology, cardiac, transplantation etc.
Dates for 2019 meetings:
Tuesday 15th January 10-11.30 Old St Mary's hospital
This guide contains advice and information about intensive care. It tells you how critical illness may be treated and what recovery may be like.
Rehabilitation Information
Recovery after critical illness can seem a long and frustrating journey. In conjuntion with information from ex-patients Central Manchester Foundation trust have developed a Critical Care recovery manual which has information and advice to help and support patients on their road to recovery.
To access more information collected from patients about their ICU experiences on the healthtalkonline.org website click HERE