0 the part of a hospital that provides a high level of care and treatment for patients who are seriously ill or who have just had a major operation:
We can now keep critically ill women in our obstetric high dependency unit, avoiding transfer to ITU.
The lives of hundreds of people undergoing serious operations may be at risk because 40% of major hospitals have no high dependency unit.
He was admitted to a high dependency unit in Johannesburg after suffering 18 hours of constant vomiting.
