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INTENSIVE CARE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("intensive care" is a kind of...):
medical aid; medical care (professional treatment for illness or injury)
Context examples:
The agent provides metabolic energy and is the primary ingredient in oral rehydration salts (ORS) and is used in intravenous (IV) fluids to provide nutrients to patients under intensive care who are unable to receive them by the oral route.
(Anhydrous Dextrose, NCI Thesaurus)
Researchers used high-speed DNA sequencing and advanced computational analysis to study stool samples from 32 infants born very preterm who received antibiotic treatment for 21 months (in the neonatal intensive care unit and after discharge), nine infants born very preterm who received antibiotics for less than a week, and 17 healthy term and late preterm infants who hadn’t received antibiotics.
(Prolonged antibiotic treatment may alter preterm infants’ microbiome, National Institutes of Health)
Although additional research is needed to determine the exact developmental timeframes for potential injury due to oxygen loss in infants, as well as the optimal concentration of oxygen necessary for early intervention therapies, these findings suggest a need to re-evaluate current practices in intensive care settings.
(Lack of Oxygen, Not Blood Flow, Delays Brain Maturation in Preterm Infants, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
