step-down unit

In the step-down unit or on a cardiac recovery floor.

After you have been transferred to a step-down unit, you will most likely be in the hospital only a few more days.

A day or so after bypass surgery, patients are often moved from intensive care to a so-called step-down unit.

You will recover in the step-down unit of the hospital until your doctors feel it is safe for you to go home.

Most hospital step-down units have significantly fewer nurses and monitoring personnel, so you are usually transferred there when:

A second stage in the recovery was moving from an intensive care unit to what is known as a step-down unit and a regular hospital room.

Staff in the step-down unit will also help you begin your rehabilitation and educate you on how to take care of yourself when you return home.

When your condition has improved, you will be transferred from the specialized ward to a normal cardiac care unit, sometimes called a step-down unit.

When your need for monitoring decreases, you will be transferred to a step-down unit in the hospital in preparation for your return home.

Once you don't need to be watched so closely, you will be moved to another area of the hospital called a step-down unit or cardiac recovery floor.

The most common usage for biotelemetry is in dedicated cardiac care telemetry units or step-down units in hospitals.

The center is equipped to treat pediatric through geriatric burn patients with 12-bed intensive care unit, 18-bed burn step-down unit, and two hydrotherapy suites.

A person who answered the telephone last night at the medical center said Francona was in the step-down unit, where patients are placed after a medical procedure or surgery.

Whittington was reported to be in stable condition at Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital and had been moved from intensive care to a "step-down unit" on Monday.

Intermediate Medical Care, a step-down unit between the levels of care of a regular hospital floor unit and critical care unit (ICU)

While noting that the staff of the facility did their best to provide rehabilitation services, the inspectorate was critical of the absence of 'a step-down unit and adequate rehabilitation' for patients'.

Patients who receive inpatient treatment may benefit from a structured intermediate environment, such as a sub-acute unit, step-down unit, partial hospital, or day hospital, during the initial phases of returning to the community.

You will have general anesthesia and will need to recover for about 1 to 2 days in the intensive care unit, possibly on a ventilator, and then for a few days in an intermediate care or step-down unit.

University Hospital of Brooklyn at Central Brooklyn http://www.downstate.edu/health-care.html is an 8-story facility with 8 intensive care and step-down units, 12 operating rooms, an adult and pediatric ER, diagnostic and ambulatory surgery facility, and 75 outpatient clinics.