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Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

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Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
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patient, suffering, bodily, cerebrospinal, intensive, intensivist, meningitis, neurosurgeons, pediatrics, pneumonia, removal, residency, tumor, ultrasounds, warrant, aspect

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Pediatric Intensive Care Unit By Jennifer Kenny

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¹     Carrie was a young patient suffering from meningitis. Philip was having severe breathing problems following an asthma attack. Lucas was just out of surgery following the removal of a tumor. What do they all have in common? They are all being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit.
 
²     Where is this unit located? The pediatric intensive care unit (or PICU) is located in the hospital. This is the part of the hospital which has the highest level of medical care for children. Here very sick children can have their conditions closely monitored, their bodily functions closely followed, and special medications, machines, and therapies readily available.
 
³     Children in the PICU may have all kinds of problems - asthma, pneumonia, heart defects, and so on. A stay here might last a day, or weeks, or months. There's a more concentrated staff here made up of highly skilled employees and lower ratios from nurse to patient.

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