A Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit (NSICU) is an area of a hospital for patients that require neurosurgery (surgery of the brain and/or spine) and who require close monitoring and constant, complicated, detailed nursing and medical care. In other words, the care is extreme or intensive, hence the name Intensive Care Unit. Patients are kept in the NSICU for as long as is medically necessary.

The NSICU consists of highly specialized, complicated devices and equipment for monitoring patients and for reviving them from apparent death or unconsciousness. An NSICU has staff such as nurses and doctors that are educated and trained to provide the specific type of health care needed to these types of patients. A Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit is also known as a Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit.

Back to main page Contact MedFriendly.com Copyright © 2001, MedFriendly.com. All rights reserved. You may not reprint or redisplay this material for commercial use without the express written consent of MedFriendly.com. Use of MedFriendly.com is subject to reading this disclaimer & the terms and conditions.