PHOTOGRAPHS: Medical ICU/Coronary Care Unit

1960s

Critical Care on E2 – 1960

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.

2016_107_001a 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.

2016_107_002 Floor plans from 1963 of the new Intensive Care Unit.

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Pre-Opening Shots – 1966

Photographs of the newly constructed Intensive Care Unit on H-7, just shortly before it opened in 1966.

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2016_107_004b Raised nursing centre in the ICU

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Medical Staff in the ICU – 1960s

Selection of photographs showing the Intensive Care Unit in action.

2016_107_014c CPR practice, 1967

2016_107_014a Central nursing station, 1967

2016_107_007e Promotional photographs of the ICU in action for advertisements, 1966

2016_107_007d Promotional photographs of the ICU in action for advertisements, 1966

2016_107_007c Promotional photographs of the ICU in action for advertisements, 1966

2016_107_007b Promotional photographs of the ICU in action for advertisements, 1966

2016_107_007a Promotional photographs of the ICU in action for advertisements, 1966

2016_107_018a Nurses practicing bag respiration and external cardiac massage, 1968

2016_107_018b Nurses practicing bag respiration and external cardiac massage, 1968

2016_107_022a A typical bed set-up in the ICU, 1969

2016_107_022b A typical bed set-up in the ICU, 1969

2016_107_023 Main room of the ICU, 1969

1970s

2016_107_025a Two nurses at a patient’s bedside and typical monitoring equipment, 1970

2016_107_028a Central station in ICU, showing the monitoring equipment designed at Winnipeg General Hospital by Monte Raber.

2016_107_035a Interior ICU, 1973

2016_107_035b Interior ICU, 1973

2016_107_035c Interior ICU, 1973

2016_107_035d Interior ICU, 1973

2016_107_035e Interior ICU, 1973

2016_107_035f Waiting Room of ICU, 1973

2016_107_035g Waiting Room of ICU, 1973

2016_107_035h Waiting Room of ICU, 1973

2016_107_036b ICU nurse and patient, 1973

2016_107_055 ICU staff attending to a patient, 1976

2016_107_060 ICU staff attending to a patient, 1976

1980s

MICU, 1981.

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HSC2012/4 MICU, 1985

1990s

HSC2011_14_23a Promotional photograph for nurse recruitment across Canada

HSC2011_14_23b Promotional photograph for nurse recruitment across Canada

HSC2011_14_23c Promotional photograph for nurse recruitment across Canada

Critical Care nurse, Lily Foubert, checks a patient’s vital signs using the Electronic Patient Information Chart, 1990.