Advanced Surgical Procedures

Images depicting advanced surgical techniques including eye, prostate, and robotic surgeries, showcasing medical professionals in sterile environments.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. A nurse and the surgeon position the robots mechanical arm.

Training of medical interns in the ECMO technique, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

Arthroscopic surgery of a wrist. Surgeon sees the joint on the monitor

a technician operates a medical imaging device in the operating room

Reportage in the interventional scanner service in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Vertebroplasty- cementoplasty operation to treat a vertebral facture. The technique consists of injecting, under image guidance, a biocompatible cement mixture into the weakened vertebra to consolidate it.

Surgeon washing hands in sink at hospital

Photo essay at Rouen hospital in France. Department of Neonatology.

Epidural. Doctor anesthetist performing local anesthesia before implanting the epidural.

Maj. Milt Poll, an anesthesiologist for the 86th Medical Squadron at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center monitors a patience vitals during surgery. Maj. Poll have been an anesthesiologist for over nine years and been supporting the medical teams at LRMC for over two years.

A mother participates in the care of her premature newborn baby.

Overview of operating theater

heart rate on a screen, in the operating room

Asia, Middle East, United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, Falcon Hospital

Prostatectomy performed by the telesurgery robot Da Vinci, which four articulated arms and camera are controlled at distance by a surgeon. Limoges hospital, France.

Back view of two adult men in medical uniform watching picture of X-ray on laptop discussing case.

Reportage in the gynecology theatre block in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Laparoscopy removal of an ovarian cyst.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. The anaesthetist nurse fills in information sheets.

Dental surgeon working on prothesis for teeth replacement

Reportage in the gynecology surgery theater in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Removal of an ovarian endometrium (endometriosis that forms a cyst in the ovary) by laparoscopy. Blood can be seen in the cyst. The fact that the cyst contains brown blood proves that the cyst is endometriotic in origin.

Female surgeon operating on a patient's eye

Reportage in the Interventional Cardiology and Rythmology service in Saint George Clinic in Nice, France. Radiofrequency ablation of cardiac arrhythmia using the Stereotaxis robotic system. This operation consists of inserting a catheter into the heart, emitting radio waves that will cauterize cardiac tissue responsible for rhythmic irregularity. The Stereotaxis robotic system is a magnetic navigation system. It uses a rotating magnetic field enabling the ablation catheter to be guided from a distance. The system consists of two giant magnets placed on each side of the operating table. The operation is carried out under radioscopic control. It is a more precise technique that reduces the risk of complications, procedure length and the patients and radiologists exposure time to x-rays. A patient suffering from atrial fibrillation. Electronic monitoring, the entire protocole is computerized.

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Jaime Villaseñor, sterile supply technician, loads an instrument set into a low-temperature sterilizer at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, August 9, 2022. A native of San Antonio, Villaseñor has been with Team BAMC since 1966 and is a subject matter expert on low-temperature hydrogen peroxide plasma sterilization, contributing to more than 11,000 items sterilized monthly in the Sterile Processing Department.

Brierley Hill Health And Social Care Centre, Steffian Bradley Architects, Brierley Hill, United Kingdom, Architect Unknown

Urology department of a hospital performing prostatectomies using a robot surgeon.

Medical resuscitation service at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. Infimriére in the pharmacy of the service to obtain Furosemide, Heparin, Ceftriaxone (Antibiotic of the cephalosporin family) used for patients with Covid 19.

Neuroradiologist in scrubs looking at monitor

Report at the Nice University Hospital, Pasteur Hospital, for a radical prostatectomy with lymph node dissection on a 66-year-old patient suffering from high-risk prostate cancer according to the D'AmIco classification.

Doctor walking in operating room doorway

Medical intensive care unit at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. Since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, all of the beds in the department have been reserved for the reception of patients in need of respiratory assistance. Hospital agents, caregivers, nurses, interns, doctors are mobilized with patients to ensure continuity of care. At each change of team, all the nursing staff of the service meet for the transmissions. Moment allowing to take stock of the state of each patient and to adjust the medical protocol.

A patient with Parkinson's disease is treated with thalamic stimulation : electrods are inserted into the brain and fed with a thalamic pacemaker implanted in the thorax. This neurosurgery is performed with the O-ARM Imaging System. This motorized intra-operative multi-dimensional surgical imaging platform provides real-time high resolution fluoroscopy and 3D CT scan imaging, and allows high precision and safety surgical procedures. Here, X-ray of the brain's patient showing the trajectory of th

Reportage in the Interventional Cardiology and Rythmology service in Saint George Clinic in Nice, France. Radiofrequency ablation of cardiac arrhythmia using the Stereotaxis robotic system. This operation consists of inserting a catheter into the heart, emitting radio waves that will cauterize cardiac tissue responsible for rhythmic irregularity. The Stereotaxis robotic system is a magnetic navigation system. It uses a rotating magnetic field enabling the ablation catheter to be guided from a distance. The system consists of two giant magnets placed on each side of the operating table. The operation is carried out under radioscopic control. It is a more precise technique that reduces the risk of complications, procedure length and the patients and radiologists exposure time to x-rays. Treating a patient suffering from a left atrial flutter. Doctor and application engineer from the mapping system company in the control room.

Physician looking through a microscope during cataract surgery in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Africa

Cesarean delivery of a woman pregnant with twins. Scheduled intervention. Presence in the operating room of obstetrician gynecologist, internal doctor, nurse, midwife. Presentation of the children to the mother.

Reportage in the neonatal unit of Robert-Debré hospital in Paris, France. Preparing bottles with breast milk.

Before sterilization of surgical instruments, a nursing assistant recomposes the boxes of instruments used in the operating room.

Reportage in the ophthalmology service in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. In the operating theatre, treatment of a retinal detachment through vitrectomy. The doctor is helped by the intern.

Department of cardiac intensive care, Haut Lévêque hospital, Bordeaux, France.

Doctors giving artificial respiration to patient in emergency care unit of a hospital

Throughout the year, the hospital's nursing staff continues to train on new technologies and new recommendations.

Photo essay at the maternity of Rouen hospital. Labor ward. Epidural.

For two days, nurses and emergency nurses undergo training at the Montpellier School of Medicine on emergency procedures and resuscitation. Course on the placement of an intraosseous route with the EZ-10 motorized system. Use of a pressure pocket which allows liquids to penetrate better into the bone.

Urology department of a hospital performing prostatectomies using a robot surgeon.

Medical resuscitation service at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. All of the beds in the ward since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic have been reserved for the reception of patients requiring respiratory assistance. Hospital workers, nursing assistants, nurses, interns, doctors are mobilized with patients to ensure the permanence of care. To avoid contamination, all personnel must comply with the rules for wearing masks, coats, aprons, glasses, gloves.

Training of medical interns in the ECMO technique, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

Patient with degenerative arthosis receiving intervertebral disk prosthesis to treat herniated cervical disc. This cervical rachis surgery is performed with the O-ARM Imaging System. This motorized intra-operative multi-dimensional surgical imaging platform provides real-time high resolution fluoroscopy and 3D CT scan imaging, and allows high precision and safety surgical procedures. Surgery performed by Pr Jean-Jacques Moreau, neurosurgery department, Dupuytren hospital, Limoges, France.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Tim Soeken, right, an Ophthalmologist deployed in support of Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, works alongside a Guatemalan Ophthalmologist assigned to Unidad Nacional de Ofralmologia, UNO, Guatemala, on a patient on Sept. 1, 2022, at UNO. During HEART 22, the U.S. military and partner nation medical professionals operated side-by-side in three specialties: Ophthalmology (general and cornea transplant surgeries), Orthopedic (general and trauma surgeries) and Dental (restorative dental surgeries).

Photo essay from the Diaconesses hospital in Paris, France. Department of urology. Da Vinci® Robotic prostatectomy. The da Vinci System enables the doctor to perform a minimally invasive surgery with enhanced vision, precision, dexterity and control. While sitting at the ergonomic console, the surgeon controls the system, which translates his hand movements into smaller, more precise movements of tiny instruments inside the patients body.

$Reportage at the New Vision clinic in Nice, France. This clinic is one of the main centres for refractive surgery in France, with cutting-edge technology for all eye laser operations. Eye operation using the SMILE (Small Incision Lenticule Extraction) laser technique. It is a new generation of treatment which enables short-sightedness to be corrected without removing the superficial layer of the cornea, nor opening it. The SMILE technique involves producing with the Femtosecond laser, a lenticule (thin slice) in 3D in the thickness of the cornea, and removing it with a microincision in the shape of a smile. The worse the short-sightedness, the thicker the lenticule.$

Reportage in the cardiology department of Saint-Philibert hospital (GHICL) in Lille, France. Coronary angiography.

Nurse wearing mask washing hands in hospital

Photo essay at Lyon hospital in France. Department of urology. Prostatectomy. This hospital has a robotic surgical system (Da Vinci Surgical System made by Intuitive Surgical) designed to facilitate complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach.

Video light inserted in patient's knee gives off eerie glow during arthroscopy.

Do not use in the framework of advertisements or promotion. Department of Urology, operating room, Lyon Sud, France.

Doctors monitoring surgery on computer screen while standing at operating room during COVID-19

Cardiology Hospital. Operating theater. Cardiac surgery. Cardioplegia. Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam.

Reportage in the ophthalmology service in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. In the operating theatre, treatment of a retinal detachment through vitrectomy. The doctor is helped by the intern.

Anaesthesist at work during mitral valve replacement surgery, an open heart surgery requiring a cardiopulmonary bypass. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Limoges hospital, France.

1980s OPERATING ROOM NURSE WEARING SURGICAL MASK AND HAIR CAP MONITORING VITALS AND ANESTHESIA

Veterinarian checking hear rate monitor in clinic

Dentist wearing protective workwear taking selfie through mobile phone while standing in clinic during Covid-19

Medical resuscitation service at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. All of the beds in the ward since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic have been reserved for the reception of patients requiring respiratory assistance. Hospital workers, nursing assistants, nurses, interns, doctors are mobilized with patients to ensure the permanence of care. To avoid contamination, all personnel must comply with the rules for wearing masks, coats, aprons, glasses, gloves.

close up view of a heart surgeon wearing his magnifying glasses

Midsection of a man holding a surgical instrument

Diagnostic and interventional radiology, angiography, examination and treatment for vascular diseases, hospital, Germany, Europe

Reportage in the interventional neuroradiology service in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Treating a cerebral aneurysm through embolization. This endovascular treatment consists of introducing a catheter into the brain and filling the aneurysm with platinum coils in order to clot it and prevent it splitting. The embolization is carried out under fluoroscopic guidance. The anesthetist prepares his equipment.

Centre de lutte contre le cancer Paul Strauss Chirurgie oncologique Chirurgie du cancer du sein

Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) veterinarians Mike Murray and Marissa Viens performing surgery on rescued otter as volunteers look on, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Bay, California

Reportage in the Vinci Clinic in Paris, France. Colonoscopy.

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France. A doctor performs a scan on a patient.

Reportage in the gynecology surgery theater in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Removal of an ovarian endometrium (endometriosis that forms a cyst in the ovary) by laparoscopy.

Treatment performed by the nursing teams of the medical resuscitation service of an intubated patient. Patients with coronavirus hospitalized in intensive care are placed in a prone position as required by the procedure. Prone inversion is a technique for improving oxygenation in patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Reportage in the Vinci Clinic in Paris, France. Putting the surgical equipment away after sterilisation.

220413-N-VS068-1016PACIFIC OCEAN (April 13, 2022) - Lt. Cmdr. Yamel Ramirez, right, and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Destiny Dansby perform a dental procedure aboard amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8), April 13. Makin Islands Dental Department provides dental cleanings, routine exams, oral hygiene instruction, minor surgeries and emergency procedures to the crew in port and at sea. Makin Island is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet.

Reportage in the gynecology surgery theater in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Diagnosis laparoscopy for a suspected endometriosis in a patient suffering from infertility. The surgeon points out an endometriotic lesion located near the ovary.

Perfusionist connecting tubes to Venous reservoir. Sudan,

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Saint George Clinic, Nice, France. Treating a torn cruciate ligament with ligament surgery using the Sambba technique. The operation, carried out under arthroscopy, consists of reconstructing the torn ligament with a transplant taken from the knee. Monitoring the residue of the anterior cruciate ligament.

Doctors discussing operation

An arthroscopy of the hip. Femoroplasty on a sportspersons hip. The drill that will plane the bone excrescence responsible for the crushing of the cartilage and labrum can be seen on the screen. This crushing is known as hip impingement.

Sick senior patient getting intravenous medicine

Heart Surgery

A premature baby is placed under blue light to treat jaundice.

Medical training with patient simulator, Plateform iLumens, Paris-Descartes university, France.

Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) by Photoselective Vaporization of the Prostate (PVP) using the Greenlight PV Laser System. Diaconesses hospital, Paris, France.

Reportage in the stereotactic neurosurgery operating theatre in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Treating Parkinsons disease through deep brain stimulation. This technique consists of implanting electrodes in the brain, which modulate abnormal cerebral electrical activity. The room is equipped with a pre-op O-arm scanner and NeuroMate, a stereotactic robot. The robot enables surgeons to optimize and increase reliability of their operating technique, and the O-arm enables real time 3D images to be obtained to improve the precision, safety and efficiency of the operation. The start of the operation. The surgeon and his team prepare locations using the O-arm.

2 technicians checking the material entering the washing room before sterilization.

Gynaecology consultation, conceptual image

Side view of male and female vet doctors in uniforms examining cat with modern ultrasound in vet clinic

Doctors team wearing face mask working while standing in operation room at hospital

Surgical Technician

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A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and covers an entire region. Training on the Lucas massage device. With LUCAS, cardiac arrest patients receive effective, uniform and continuous chest compressions.

Medical intensive care unit at Jacques Cartier Hospital in Massy. All the beds in the service since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic have been reserved for the reception of patients needing respiratory assistance. Hospital workers, nursing assistants, nurses, interns and physicians are mobilized with patients to ensure continuous care. To avoid any contamination, all staff must comply with the rules for wearing masks, gowns, aprons, glasses, gloves. Preparation of care and treatment, syringe, needle, respirator installation.

Portrait of confident team in veterinary clinic

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