How to Use intensive care in a Sentence

intensive care

noun
  • 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
  • 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 girl has since been moved out of intensive care, according to the outlet.
    Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Both babies spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    Anna Werner Wernera@cbsnews.com, 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
  • Austin, who resumed his duties on Jan. 5, is no longer in intensive care.
    Lolita C. Baldor, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Charlotte Catholic High School said on social media the two students were in the intensive care unit.
    Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2024
  • After spending a couple of weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit, the baby was allowed to go home.
    WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Charlotte Catholic High School said on Facebook that the girls were admitted to the intensive care unit following the crash.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
  • She was slowly removed from the anesthesia and wheeled to intensive care.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The man, who was identified only by his surname Lee, was receiving treatment for fractures in an intensive care unit.
    Hakyung Kate Lee, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2024
  • When the labs are complete in the fall of 2025, students will be able to practice in faux medical-surgical suites and intensive care units, nursing stations and radiology suites.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024

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