different types of ICU

what are some of the different ICU units such as MICU, SICU etc and what do they stand for and what do you see the most of in each of these?

thanks everyone!
Nicu: neonatal intensive care unitSicu: surgical intensive care unitMicu: medical intensive care unit

I work in a unit that sees both MICU and SICU types, so I know those both well...MICU - Medical ICU, we see lots of ARDS, sepsis, respiratory distress, ESLD, overdoses just to name a fewSICU - Surgical ICU, we see lots of traumas, post surgical cases such as transplants, TAA/AAA repairs, bowel obstructions, flaps, etcNeuro ICU - pretty obvious, neuro stuff. Strokes. brain bleeds, etcCCU - Cardiac ICU, mostly MI's, CABG, etc

MICU- medical ICU- generally illnesses and condidtionsSICU- surgical ICU- mainly post-op and/ or traumaTICU- trauma ICUPICU- pediatric ICU- for the kidsNICU- neonatal ICU- for newborns and those under 28 daysCCU- cardiac care unit- for CHF, MIS, etcAt least these are the ones I am familiar with

Many different hospitals have many different terms. Frequently seen are MICU=Medical ICUSICU=Surgical ICUTICU=Trauma ICU or Transplant ICU NICU=Neuro ICU or Neonatal ICUPICU=Pediatric ICUCVICU=Cardiovascular ICU CCU=Coronary Care UnitCICU=Cardiac ICUBICU=Burn ICUI also know of a facility that has a Digestive Disease ICU

Under the "specialty" tab click on "critical care nursing" and there's a whole forum for each of these different types of ICUs. You can find all the information you could ever want!They're very interesting!

STICU: shock trauma ICU

SNICU = Surgical NeuroTTICU = Thoracic Transplant

CV-SICU: cardiovascular surgical (post-op hearts: CABG, valves, heart and heart-lung en bloc transplants, etc...)

Quote from glutton4punishmentSTICU: shock trauma ICU

Quote from MommyandRNNever heard that version! Around me, STICU is surgical/trauma.

there's 2 ways of deliniating critical care beds , the UK system which looks at dependency / number of organ systems requiring support / invasiveness of ventilation outside the 2000 bed teaching hospitals you'll generally find that a UK hospital has one ICU (level 3 critical care), one or two High dependency units (level 2 critical care) and then a number of HDU (l2)/ close observation /Level 1 beds either in specific level 1 areas ( e.g. CCU, extended recovery , acute respiratory (NIV) ) or attached to specific specialities - we'll have 2 up to level 2 beds when staffing and procedures are sorted as well as 32 'level 0 ' beds on the tertiary unit i work on...or the US system which sometimes calls all critical care beds 'ICU' but then has a varietyof acuties present on the unit