The Methodist Hospital System. Leading Medicine
The Methodist Hospital System. Leading Medicine

Methodist Sugar Land Hospital

ICU

Our Services - ICU (Intensive Care Unit)

Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are specialized sections of Methodist Sugar Land Hospital which are designed to deal with patients who have a critical, life-threatening illness or injury. ICU patients are usually on life support or other organ support machines, which must be closely monitored. They are seldom admitted directly to the ICU but rather they are transferred from a trauma room, emergency room (ER), or surgical area after their condition has stabilized. Methodist Sugar Land’s ICU team of experts include nurses, respiratory care technicians, pharmacists, dieticians, intensivist physicians, and other trained medical personnel. Intensivists are doctors who are expressly trained in critical care medicine and work in conjunction with other physicians to supervise the treatment of patients in the ICU.

Typical examples of patients admitted to the ICU include those who have suffered from:

  • surgical complications
  • heart attack
  • stroke
  • pneumonia
  • premature birth
  • poisoning
  • pneumonia

However, the patients may also have been victims of a major trauma such as:

  • severe burns
  • stabbing
  • gun-shot wounds
  • falls
  • car accident
  • industrial mishaps

The unit differs from an ER in that it deals solely with and provides longer term care for those requiring critical care.