How to Use intensive care in a Sentence

intensive care

noun
Definition of intensive carenext
  • Her condition will require intensive care.
  • Many of the patients who died were in the intensive care unit.
    — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Some of his time in the hospital was spent in the intensive care unit.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
  • For the first time, there will be a neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 21 Nov. 2024
  • His twin, Ali, is fighting for his life in the intensive care unit.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Hal stayed in the intensive care unit, expecting a long wait for a heart.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The second stroke was massive enough to land him in the intensive care unit, though he has since been moved out of the ICU.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Her father, who had just had open heart surgery, was in the intensive care unit.
    — Laura Kwerel, NPR, 19 June 2024
  • The baby had to spend 45 days in a neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Katheryn Houghton, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The nurses transferred him to a small intensive care unit on the other side of the building.
    — John Carreyrou, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The girl has since been moved out of intensive care, according to the outlet.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Around 68% of intensive care units were filled as of Tuesday.
    — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
  • There, he was sent directly to the intensive care unit.
    — Paula Span, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Thompson spent the first part of her life in the neonatal intensive care unit, cared for by nurses.
    — Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • After Malti’s birth, the new parents had to go to the neonatal intensive care unit every day for the next three months.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Growing for the third day in a row, the number of the state's virus patients who were in intensive care rose Thursday by four, to 46.
    — Andy Davis, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The 61-year-old actor had remained in a coma in intensive care since Feb. 18.
    — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Hope, who is the inspiration for the book, spent a few days in the intensive care unit earlier this year.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Doctors kept him overnight and then admitted him to the intensive care unit.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2022
  • He was placed on life support in the intensive care unit after the surgery, according to the fundraising page.
    — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Zach Packard, who was hit in the head by the shotgun blast and ended up in the intensive care unit, received the largest damage amount — $3 million.
    — Colleen Slevin, ajc, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Both babies spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Anna Werner [email protected], CBS News, 17 June 2022
  • After 51 days in the neonatal intensive care unit, the baby was cleared to leave the hospital.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 17 May 2024
  • But Deb McDonnell, so far, hasn’t been able to return to work as an intensive care nurse.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Jeanine Kunkel had been the healthy twin, the one who came home from the hospital that day in 2008 while her brother James stayed a few nights in intensive care.
    — Laura Reiley and Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • At the time, the police chief said that one of the three students shot had been discharged from the hospital while the other two remained in the intensive care unit.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The infection landed her in the intensive care unit and nearly killed her.
    — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Despite the surge in infections, the number of Covid cases in intensive care units are at less than half the peak set last year.
    — Iain Rogers, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2022
  • In the early 2000s a group of physicians in the Netherlands began to notice a worrisome pattern in the sickest patients in their intensive care units.
    — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025
  • He was treated on the racecourse before being airlifted to the intensive care unit at Cork University Hospital.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025

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