我院重症监护病房(ICU)建于1991年3月。收治外科系统为主和有关手术科室如:妇产科、耳鼻喉科、口腔科、急症科及少数神经内科需作呼吸循环支持治疗的患者,所以又称ICUs(Surgical Intensive Care Unit)。本文对比观察ICU建立前后术后患者的危重度、治疗效果及死亡率,并对死亡原因加以分析,从而认识ICU存在的必要性。 Our hospital intensive care unit (ICU) was built in March 1991. The Surgical Invasive Care Unit (ICUs) is also referred to as the main surgical treatment system and related surgical departments such as: obstetrics and gynecology, otolaryngology, stomatology, emergency medicine, and a few neurology departments. This article compares the criticality, therapeutic effect, and mortality of patients after ICU establishment before and after the establishment of the ICU, and analyzes the causes of death to understand the necessity of the existence of ICU.