PICU

See also: picu and piču

English

Noun

PICU (plural PICUs)

1. Initialism of pediatric intensive care unit.
2. Initialism of psychiatric intensive care unit.
   • 2017 April 7, Mary Chambers, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The craft of caring, CRC Press, →ISBN:

     Since the writings of Rachlin on 1973, the world of psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) has continued to advance, bringing new initiatives and many challenges along the way. PICUs contain the most acutely ill of all psychiatric inpatients. […] Aggression is common on a PICU […]

Related terms

• NICU
• CICU
• ICU

See also

• intensive care unit
• intensive care