psychiatric intensive care unit
psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) n. a unit especially designed for nursing the most acutely and severely mentally ill, often a locked ward with increased staffing levels on which patients stay for the shortest possible period before being transferred to an open psychiatric ward.
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