Intensive Care Units are specialist wards for patients who are too ill to be treated elsewhere.
They have sophisticated equipment that allows close monitoring of how the body is coping, as well as ventilators and oxygen. And there are highly skilled, specialist staff.
ITV News Health Correspondent Emily Morgan explains what they do, and what treatment the Prime Minister could receive.
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