step-down unit

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13:58 Jun 24, 2010
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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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Summary of translations provided
5Hemşire kontrollü hasta takip birimi
Salih YILDIRIM
5 -1Telemetri Ünitesi
Necdet Yılmaz


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5 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Telemetri Ünitesi


Definition from own experience or research:
Durumu ağır olmayan ve yoğun bakım ünitesinden çıkarılan hastaların gözetlenmek üzere tutulduğu ünite.

Example sentence(s):
  • Miyokard infarktüsü şüphesi ile hastaneye yatırılan, ritmi ve hemodinamik durumu stabil olan hastalar, ufan non-Q Mİ hastaları direkt olarak telemetri ünitesine kabul edilebilirler. - Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği  
Necdet Yılmaz
Türkiye
Local time: 21:58
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish

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No  nurperi: telemetri unitesinde sadece kalp hastalarinin bakimi yapilir
34 days
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148 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Hemşire kontrollü hasta takip birimi


Definition from Goggle:
Generally, patients are transferred to the Step-Down Unit from the Critical Care Unit approximately 24 hours after their cardiac bypass surgery.
"Genel olarak hastalar kalp bypas ameliyatından yaklaşık 24 saat sonraKritik Bakım Biriminden Hemişre kontrollü hasta takip birimine aktarılır."

Example sentence(s):
  • step-down unit Type: Term Definitions: 1. a hospital nursing unit providing care intermediate between that of an intensive care unit and a normally-staffed in-patient division. "1. Yoğun bakım birimi ile normal olarak personelli yatar hasta bölümü arasındaki ara bakımı sağlayan bir hastane bakım birimi." - Goggle  
Salih YILDIRIM
United States
Local time: 14:58
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
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