Critical Care Trauma Centre at Victoria Hospital

The Critical Care Trauma Center (CCTC) at London Health Sciences Centre's (LHSC) Victoria Hospital is a 30 bed medical-surgical-trauma unit. Our patient population is adults over 17 years of age. There is a separate Pediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU) located opposite to the visitors' entrance to CCTC.

The CCTC cares for patients who require intensive care following multiple trauma or surgical procedures (including vascular, thoracic, gynecology, head and neck, and urology surgery), or who need support for complex medical disorders (including respiratory, renal and oncology). CCTC is a referral center for Southwestern Ontario for the Trauma and Vascular program. CCTC has state-of-the-art equipment and specially trained staff to meet the complex needs of the critically ill patients.

The Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT) is comprised of nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists who bring critical care support to London Health Sciences Centre's (LHSC) patients beyond the walls of the critical care unit.

The CCTC is a Level III teaching facility, affilated with The University of Western Ontario (UWO). Care is provided by a multidisciplinary team of professional health care providers, and is directed by our physicians who have specialty training in critical care. You can learn more about our unit by visiting the Patients, Families and Visitors section of our site.

Our teams promote an interdisciplinary learning environment, teaching students from various disciplines and educational institutions, including: The University of Western Ontario, Fanshawe College and partnering academic institutions. Many members of the critical care team are academically affiliated with faculties at UWO.

CCTC hosts an annual conference, "Challenges in Critical Care" each June. Click here for our upcoming June 1, 2012 program.