An intensive care room can be a very intimidating place, both in terms of its sound environment and its numerous devices; it's a place designed to allow continuous monitoring of the patient and where, day and night, highly technical care is provided. Find out more about risks
You'll see lots of machines and screens: each suppléation machine monitors a certain number of parameters, enabling therapies to be adjusted as closely as possible to the patient's needs.
You will hear numerous alarms: caregivers set thresholds to alert them to certain variations in patient parameters.
You may be surprised to see that the partitions are glazed, to facilitate continuous patient monitoring.
NB: The photographed "patient" is a model
To help you better understand the world of an intensive care room, we offer you this virtual tour: you can put the room in full screen and visit its entire space.All machines, furniture and accessories are clickable and will give you access to explanations. This room looks like most intensive care rooms in France. Of course, there may be a few variations in the installation of machines and the organization of the space, but you should find the essential elements.
Enjoy your visit!
NB: the translations of the French version have been generated by artificial intelligence and are awaiting proofreading by native speakers. These translations may contain errors.