Intensive Care Unit

Preferred Label : Intensive Care Unit;

NCIt synonyms : ICU;

NCIt related terms : CRITICAL CARE UNIT;

NCIt definition : A health care facility unit that provides intensive care to critically ill patients and patients with complex medical problems who require constant monitoring or special therapy.;

Details

Origin ID

C53511;

UMLS CUI

C0021708;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Intensive Care Units [DeCS]
- Intensive care unit (environment) [SNOMED CT concept]
- critical care [MedlinePlus Topic]
- intensive care unit [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
- intensive care unit [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- intensive care unit (icu) [NCCMERP Descriptor]
- intensive care unit (icu) [NCCMERP Descriptor]
- intensive care units [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Intensive care unit [LOINC System]
- intensive care units [CISMeF resources Type]
- intensive care units [MeSH Descriptor]
- intensive care units [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Related Organization [UMLS semantic type]
- Manufactured Object [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- ICU [LOINC Class]
- Intensive care unit [LOINC System]
- Intensive care unit (environment) [SNOMED CT concept]
- intensive care units [CISMeF resources Type]
- intensive care units [MeSH concept]
- intensive care units [MeSH Descriptor]
concept_is_in_subset
- FDA Individual Case Safety Report Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Location of Event Occurrence ICSR Terminology [NCIt concept]

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