The new structure will be connected to the existing hospital and contain 100 general medical-surgical beds, 40 neonatal intensive-care beds and 20 acute rehabilitation beds.

Chapter Twenty-two McCoy stood like a stern father at the head of the intensive-care bed while the captain and Haidar spoke with Joray.

"The authorities needed hundreds of intensive-care beds to cope with the victims of the gas," Mr. Lister told The Evening Standard.

For example, intensive-care beds at some Veterans Administration hospitals cannot be used because of a nursing shortage.

The hospital has three monitored intensive-care beds, two birthing suites, and two surgery suites for inpatient and outpatient surgeries.

A critically ill patient is shunted from place to place in a desperate 100-mile search for an intensive-care bed, and finally dies in the ambulance.

At the same time, there is a shift in emphasis to intensive-care beds as hospitals increasingly concentrate on sicker patients.

Tisch Hospital has four intensive-care units, all in the east wing on the fifteenth floor, and at the time of the outbreak there were thirty-two intensive-care beds.

Dr. Blumenthal said Amandine, who shuttled between her mother's and father's intensive-care beds yesterday, seemed to be "amazingly well composed.

Wheelchairs or stretchers should be available, plus at least one infirmary bed for each 1,000 passengers and crew members and one intensive-care bed per ship.