Prior to the opening of the Intensive Care Unite on H-7, the old E2 wing functioned as an area to treat critically ill patients.
The First Intensive Care Unit On The E Wing, 1960
Floor Plans – 1963-1964
Floor plans of the new Intensive Care Unit in the H-Wing of the Winnipeg General Hospital. These plans were drawn between 1963-1964. Many of the plans show the central nursing and control station in the middle of the Unit.
Floor plans from 1963 of the new Intensive Care Unit.
Pre-opening Shots – 1966
Photographs of the newly constructed Intensive Care Unit on H-7, just shortly before it opened in 1966.
Raised nursing centre in the ICU, 1966
Medical Staff in the ICU – 1960s
Selection of photographs showing the Intensive Care Unit in action.
CPR Practice, 1967Central Nursing Station, 1967Promotional photographs of the ICU in action for advertisements, 1966Promotional photographs of the ICU in action for advertisements, 1966Promotional photographs of the ICU in action for advertisements, 1966Promotional photographs of the ICU in action for advertisements, 1966Promotional photographs of the ICU in action for advertisements, 1966Nurses practicing bag respiration and external cardiac massage, 1968Nurses practicing bag respiration and external cardiac massage, 1968A typical bed set-up in the ICU, 1969A typical bed set-up in the ICU, 1969Main room of the ICU, 1969
1970s
Two nurses at a patient’s bedside and typical monitoring equipment, 1970Central Station in ICU, showing the monitoring equipment designed at Winnipeg General Hospital by Monte Raber.Interior ICU, 1973Interior ICU, 1973Interior ICU, 1973Waiting Room of ICU, 1973Waiting Room of ICU, 1973Waiting Room of ICU, 1973ICU staff attending to a patient, 1976ICU nurse and patient, 1973ICU staff attending to a patient, 1976
Promotional photograph for nurse recruitment across CanadaCritical Care Nurse, Lily Foubert, checks a patient’s vital signs using the Electronic Patient Information Chart, 1990
