intensive care: close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions
treatment: care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
releasing hormone: any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones; each of these hormones causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone