Blanche woke up two days later in the intensive-care ward of the local hospital.

In the middle of the intensive-care ward, Rita slid down to the floor and wailed.

You'll do better,' Dean said, 'if you think of this place as like an intensive-care ward in a hospital.

The tiny intensive-care ward of the hospital was packed.

A whole section of the hospital's intensive-care ward had been occupied by a portable hyperbaric "altitude" chamber.

The crowd milled about uncertainly in the confined space of the intensive-care ward.

We were inside some kind of pediatric intensive-care ward.

Haiti also runs the risk, he added, that the international community might "become despondent when the patient clearly has not left the intensive-care ward."

He should be in an intensive-care ward, not on his way to a cozy old family doctor in Kensington.

Within minutes I was being treated in the emergency department, and was admitted to the intensive-care ward within the hour.