ICU psychosis is a disorder in which patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) or a similar setting experience anxiety, hear voices, see things that are not there, and become paranoid, severely disoriented in time and place, very agitated, or even violent, etc. In short, patients become temporarily psychotic..
The difference between a continent and a island is that continents sit on their own continental lithosphere and islands do not. Greenland is the largest island and Austral â¦ ia is the smallest continent.
Islands and continents. Continents and islands are both words to describe areas of land. They mean different things because continents are much larger than islands, and islands always have water all around them.England is part of the British Isles (a group of islands). There are seven continents in the world, and tens of thousands of islands. Continental islands are located near continents, and are part of continental shelves. 2  Oceanic islands are far away from any land. 3  Many oceanic islands are also volcanoes. 4  Great Britain and Ireland are islands â they are both part of Europe, but not part of the continent of Europe.