INTENSIVE CARE definition

INTENSIVE CARE means an Injury or Sickness has resulted in the life insured requiring continuous mechanical ventilation by means of tracheal intubation for ten consecutive days (24 hours per day) in an authorised intensive care unit of an acute care hospital. Excluded from this definition is Intensive Care as a result of medically induced coma.
INTENSIVE CARE unit means an identified section, xxxx or wing of a hospital which is under the constant supervision of a dedicated Medical Practitioner(s), and which is specially equipped for the continuous monitoring and treatment of patients who are in a critical condition, or require life support facilities and where the level of care and supervision is considerably more sophisticated and intensive than in the ordinary and other wards.
INTENSIVE CARE. UNIT shall mean a section within the Hospital which is designated as an Intensive Care Unit by the Hospital, and which is maintained on a twenty-four (24) hour basis solely for treatment of patients in critical condition and is equipped to provide special nursing and medical services not available elsewhere in the Hospital.

Examples of INTENSIVE CARE in a sentence

  • INTENSIVE CARE UNIT - Reimbursement of the Reasonable and Customary Charges Medically Necessary for actual room and board incurred during confinement as an in-patient in the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital.


More Definitions of INTENSIVE CARE

INTENSIVE CARE means (1) a specifically designated facility of the Hospital that provides the highest level of medical care; and (2) which is restricted to those patients who are critically ill or injured. Such facility must be separate and apart from the surgical recovery room and from rooms, beds and wards customarily used for patient confinement.
INTENSIVE CARE means a Sickness or Injury has resulted in the Life Insured requiring continuous mechanical ventilation by means of tracheal intubation for ten consecutive days (24 hours per day) in an authorised intensive care unit of an acute care
INTENSIVE CARE means a designated ward, unit of an area within a Hospital for which a specified extra daily surcharge is made and which is staffed and equipped to provide, on a continuous basis, specialized or intensive care or services not regularly provided within such Hospital.
INTENSIVE CARE. UNIT shall mean a section within a Hospital which is designated as an Intensive Care Unit by the Hospital, and which is maintained on a twenty-four (24) hours basis solely for treatment of patients in critical condition and is equipped to provide special nursing and medical services not available elsewhere in the Hospital. LOSS OF HEARING shall mean permanent irrecoverable loss of hearing. LOSS OF LIMB shall mean loss by physical separation at or above the wrist or ankle joint. LOSS OF SIGHT shall mean the entire and permanent irrecoverable loss of sight. LOSS OF SPEECH shall mean total permanent inability to communicate verbally. LOSS OF USE shall mean permanent total functional disablement and is treated like total loss of said limb or organ and not in terms of Your professional or occupational incapacity or covered event.
INTENSIVE CARE unit‖ means an identified section, xxxx or wing o f a hospital which is under the constant supervision o f a dedicated medical practitioner(s), and which is specially equipped for the continuous monitoring and treatment o f patients who are in a critical condition, or require life support facilities and where the level o f care and supervision is considerably more sophisticated and intensive than in the ordinary and other wards.
INTENSIVE CARE means a Sickness or Injury has resulted in the Life Insured requiring continuous mechanical ventilation by means of tracheal intubation for seven consecutive days (24 hours per day) in an authorised intensive care unit of an acute care hospital. Excluded from this definition is Intensive Care as a result of alcohol or drug abuse.
INTENSIVE CARE means a specially designed facility of the Hospital that provide the highest level of medical care and which is restricted to those patients who are critically ill or injured.