{"id":8046,"date":"2016-11-17T11:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T16:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?page_id=8046"},"modified":"2016-12-15T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T19:26:34","slug":"what-is-the-intensive-care-unit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/clinical-services\/my-icu-the-intensive-care-unit\/what-is-the-intensive-care-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Intensive Care Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What We Do<\/h2>\n<p>The Intensive Care Units at The Ottawa Hospital are special units that care for patients with acute, life-threatening illness or injury.\u00a0 Critical Care is provided by specially trained ICU teams of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and other allied health professionals who use their unique expertise and ability to provide intensive resuscitation, ongoing treatment, and monitoring to the hospital&#8217;s sickest patients.<\/p>\n<h2>ICU&#8217;s Vision<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;To be the Embodiment of Patient-centered Care for the Critically Ill&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>ICU&#8217;s Mission<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To provide high quality compassionate care to patients at risk for or with existing critical illness.<\/li>\n<li>To educate health-care providers in the care of the critically ill; our remit from education is local, regional and national.<\/li>\n<li>To perform innovative research that will improve the care of the critically ill patient.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>TOH ICU Campuses<\/h2>\n<p>The Ottawa Hospital has two Intensive Care Units, located at the Civic and General Campuses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6\"><a href=\"\/en\/patients-visitors\/directions-maps\/campus-maps\/\"><strong>General Campus<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThe General Campus at 501 Smyth Road is a 28 bed unit with specialization in respiratory, thoracic and cancer care.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left img-responsive\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GeneralCampusWeb.jpg\" alt=\"General Campus\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6\"><a href=\"\/en\/patients-visitors\/directions-maps\/campus-maps\/\"><strong>Civic Campus<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThe Civic Campus at 1053 Carling Avenue is a 28 bed unit with specialization in neurological, vascular and trauma care.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft img-responsive\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CivicCampusWeb.jpg\" alt=\"Civic Campus\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What We Do The Intensive Care Units at The Ottawa Hospital are special units that care for patients with acute, life-threatening illness or injury.\u00a0 Critical Care is provided by specially trained ICU teams of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and other allied health professionals who use their unique expertise and ability to provide intensive resuscitation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":8042,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8046","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8046\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}