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.
A continent is one of several large landmasses on the Earth. There are a total of seven continents; North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Australia and Africa.In some places, Europe and Asia is termed as one continent, named as Eurasia, making it six continents.In other places, North America and South America are also named singularly as the Americas.or example, Australia can be considered as an island as well as a continent. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines an island as, âa tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent.â While this definition is correct, it is limited and does not contain any other distinguishing factors of an island.