step-down unit

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13:57 Jun 24, 2010
English to Catalan translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care
Additional field(s): Medical: Cardiology, Medical (general)
English term or phrase: step-down unit
Definition from Bluecross Blueshield Association:
A ward or section of a ward in a hospital that is devoted to delivering sub-acute care to patients following a period of acute care.

Example sentence(s):
  • Generally, patients are transferred to the Step-Down Unit from the Critical Care Unit approximately 24 hours after their cardiac bypass surgery. Skaggs
  • To work in a step-down unit, nurses need special training, which may be obtained at an area hospital. They are expected to closely monitor patients recently released from the intensive-care unit before those patients are moved to regular hospital beds. StarTribune.com
  • The average stay in a CCU is five days, after which most patients are transferred to a hospital's step-down unit for less intensive care. About.com
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4 +1Sala o unitat de cures semiintensives
Gemma Sanza Porcar


  

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Sala o unitat de cures semiintensives


Definition from own experience or research:
Les Unitats de Cures semiintensives estan concebudes per a pacients que previsiblement tenen un baix risc de necessitar mesures terapèutiques de suport vital, però que requereixen més monitorització i cures d'infermeria que els que poden rebre en plantes d'hospitalització convencional.

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  • La clínica serà un centre modern, atractiu, funcional i adaptat, amb equipaments mèdics de darrera tecnologia, i una qualitat hotelera d’alt nivell. El centre tindrà 110 llits i acollirà les especialitats mèdiques i quirúrgiques. També comptarà amb Àrea Quirúrgica, Àrea Obstètrica, Neonatologia, Unitat de Cirurgia Sense Ingrés (UCSI), <b>Unitat de Cures Semiintensives</b>, Diagnòstic per la Imatge i Urgències, entre altres serveis. A la part posterior de l’edifici s’ha fet un aparcament cobert, al mateix nivell que el carrer i amb una zona enjardinada. - SumaAlianÇa  
  • Per la seva banda, el Dr. Dávalos deixa l’Hospital Josep Trueta després de 18 anys. Des de 1999 és el Cap de Neurologia i des del 2001 també dirigeix l’Agència d’Investigació del centre. Impulsor de l’equip de Neurologia de l’Hospital, un dels projectes fonamentals del Dr. Dávalos ha estat la creació, el 1997, de la primera <b>Unitat Ictus de Cures Semiintensives</b> de l’estat espanyol. - GENCAT  
Gemma Sanza Porcar
Spain
Local time: 02:12
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in CatalanCatalan
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Yes  Maria de Ros
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  -> Gràcies Maria :)
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