Clinical Care Environments

Hospital scenes depicting medical staff attending to patients, including intensive care units and personal nursing, reflecting critical health services.

Reportage on a home health care service in Savoie, France. A nurse carries out an intramuscular injection of vitamines for a patient suffering from bedsores.

Photo essay at Rouen hospital, France. Department of urology.

A medical professional attends to a patient in a hospital bed, using medical equipment.

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France.

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. Visiting a patient in the emergency department.

Reportage on a home health care service in Savoie, France. A nurse carries out an intramuscular injection of vitamines for a patient suffering from bedsores.

Newborn dummy emergency care training. Training at the CESU, Center for teaching emergency care at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier. Different healthcare professionals train in real emergency situations on a SimNewB newborn dummy. The newborn is cared for by an emergency doctor assisted by doctors from the SMUR.

Report from the maternity ward of the Antoine-Béclère hospital (92). Pregnant woman, after IVF (in vitro fertilization). Prenatal consultation with a midwife. Ultrasound: the blue spot shows a weak contraction.

Reportage in the A&E department of Robert Ballanger general hospital, France.

Students facing a post natal emergency follow procedures on a mannequin. This dummy is controlled by operators in an adjoining room. Here, a woman with heavy bleeding following a home birth.

Report from the operating room of the pediatric neurosurgery department at the Necker hospital. End of an operation.

Report from the maternity ward of the Antoine-Béclère hospital (92). Pregnant woman, after IVF (in vitro fertilization) before childbirth.

Patient has an intravenous drip inserted into arm

Neurological examination of a patient who was thrombolysis after stroke, Intensive Care Unit Neuro-Vascular (UNV) CHU Bordeaux.

Report from the maternity ward of the Antoine-Béclère hospital (92). Childbirth after IVF (in vitro fertilization).

Elderly patients in hospital bed background, Close up of IV saline solution drip

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.

Reportage in the A&E department of Robert Ballanger general hospital, France.

Photo essay at Rouen hospital in France. Department of pediatric surgery. Cranioplasty.

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France. An intern looks after a patient.

Nurses transferring a patient after surgery. Lariboisière Hospital.

Intensive care.

A dad takes his baby skin to skin, and takes turns with the mom.

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. Care performed on an intubated patient on an artificial respirator and under dialysis.

hospital interior.

Haemodialysis. Patient undergoing haemodialysis treatment. Limoges hospital, France.

Young woman giving birth and pushing in hospital ward bed

Boy lying in hospital bed, holding stomach

Photo essay at Rouen hospital, France. Department of pneumology. Bronchial endoscopy.

Barcelona, 06/20/2021. ICU of the Vall d'Hebron hospital, with hospitalized COVID 19 patients. Archdc. Photo: Inés Baucells.

Patient in the shock ward in the intensive care unit of a university hospital. Transosseous traction is performed in anticipation of an operation that will take place the next morning

Hospital staff rushing patient to operating room

Photo essay at the maternity of Saint Maurice hospital in France. Birth of premature twins. After the childbirth the twins are placed in the department of neonatology.

Reportage in the orthopedic service of Robert Bellanger Hospital in France. A student nurse.

Woman hospital patient

Patient suffering from Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) connected to a continuous positive airway pressure device (CPAP). Limoges hospital, France.

Pregnant woman before delivary. Obstetrics and gynaecology department, Saintonges hospital, Saintes, France.

Intensive care patient

Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita, New Orleans, October 6, 2005 - Medical corps personnel aboard the 1,000 bed hospital ship USNS Comfort, now docked here and providing critical medical facilities and personnel to help relieve the city's strained medical resources, tend to a newly admitted patient. The USNS Comfort came to New Orleans following a 30 day deployment in Pascagoula, Ms., immediately following Hurricane Katrina's landfall on August 30. Win Henderson / FEMA

Continuous training of midwives and obstetricians on resuscitation in the delivery room with a mannequin.

Reportage in the iLumens laboratory, during a day dedicated to ongoing training for midwives and obstetrician gynecologists, on the theme of resuscitation in the birthing room. The iLumens lab (University Lab for Medical Teaching using Digital and Simulation Technologies) is in Paris Descartes University and organises initial, specialised and ongoing training for all health care professionals.

Female doctor examining a patient in a hospital room

Students facing a post natal emergency follow procedures on a mannequin. This dummy is controlled by operators in an adjoining room. Here, a woman with heavy bleeding following a home birth.

Patient in the shock ward in the intensive care unit of a university hospital. Transosseous traction is performed in anticipation of an operation that will take place the next morning.

Empty medical bed MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, FEBRUARY - 2023 - Empty medical bed at hospital room Copyright: xZoonar.com/DanielxFerreira-LeitesxCiccarinox 20157750

Reportage in the dialysis centre in Leman hospital, Thônon-les-Bains, France. Patients go to this service three times a week, each session lasting 4 hours on average.

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France.

Birth of twins by cesarean section. The twins placed in the incubator are taken to the treatment room so that the pediatrician, the pediatric nurse, the nurse, the midwife carry out clinical examinations of the newborn before finding the dad for a skin-to-skin session.

Reportage in the Osteoarticular Infections Referral Centre (CRIOA) at Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon hospital in Paris. Septic surgery, removing an internal fixation in the ankle following an infection. To avoid infection spreading, the operating theatre team wear scrub overalls that have to be taken off when leaving theatre.

Recovery Room with beds and comfortable medical equipped in a hospital

Anesthesiologist students during a critical situation resuscitation exercise at the Nimes Faculty of Medicine. Students train on a Sim Man 3 G robotic dummy.

Emergency services of the Abbeville hospital, COVID area, transfer of a patient, diagnosed negative, to a medical department.

Patient admitted in hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xPrashantxBokaria/DinodiaxPhotox

Woman hospital patient

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France. Weighing a patient.

Sick patient lying in a hospital bed

Emergency services of the Abbeville hospital, COVID area, meal taken in the room by a patient with the help of a nursing assistant. Installation of the patient in bed.

Reportage in a mobile functional exploration unit. A nurse intervenes in a neonatal service to carry out a check-up EEG on some premature babies. The EEG enables the development of the brain to be monitored. An extremely preterm baby, born at 25 weeks of amenorrhea.

Patient using his cell phone. Emergency department, Limoges hospital, France.

Tam Duc Cardiology Hospital. Vietnamese child suffering from heart diseases. Intensive care unit. Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam.

A team takes a blood sample from a newborn baby.

Reportage in the dialysis centre in Leman hospital, Thônon-les-Bains, France. Patients go to this service three times a week, each session lasting 4 hours on average.

Anesthesiologist students during a critical situation resuscitation exercise at the Nimes Faculty of Medicine. Students train on a Sim Man 3 G robotic dummy.

Newborn dummy emergency care training. Training at the CESU, Center for teaching emergency care at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier. Different healthcare professionals train in real emergency situations on a SimNewB newborn dummy. The newborn is cared for by an emergency doctor assisted by doctors from the SMUR.

Emergency services of the Abbeville hospital, care in the Covid area of a patient with symptoms of infection. A nurse accompanies the patient for a scanner in compliance with health protection rules. Installation of the patient on the examination table of the scanner. Samu 80 - SMUR d'Abbeville département de la Somme (80)

Two day old baby girl with jaundice under ultraviolet light in the neonatal center at RS Islam Jakarta Pondok Kopi Medical Center in Jakarta, Indonesia; Jakarta, Indonesia

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France. A nurse cleans a patient's catheter.

Photo essay at Rouen hospital, France. Department of pneumology.

Tele-consultation between the neurology department in Besançon hospital, France and A&E in Dole hospital, France. Dole hospital doesn't have a neurology department which makes detecting a CVA a difficult task. Telemedicine allows A&E doctors at Dole Hospital to obtain an immediate diagnosis by a neurologist in Besançon hospital. This system allows doctors to exchange medical imagery and the patient's file.

Patient in the shock ward in the intensive care unit of a university hospital. Transosseous traction is performed in anticipation of an operation that will take place the next morning

Reportage in A&E at Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon hospital in Paris, France.

Reportage in the neonatal unit of Robert-Debré hospital in Paris, France.

Health

A nurse takes the blood of a patient in emergencies department in the hospital of Une infimiere preleve le sang d'un patient au service des urgences du centre hospitalier d'Aix en Provence. Paca, France.

Oncology department. Patient with cancer receiving chemotherapy in day hospital.

Photo essay at Henry Gabrielle hospital in Lyon, France. Department of urology. Postoperative nursing care of trans man patient after a sex reassignment surgery, phalloplasty. Disinfection of the forearm which provided the skin for the phalloplasty.

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

Stressed pregnant woman lying on bed in hospital

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 dialysis centre in Leman hospital, Thônon-les-Bains, France. Patients go to this service three times a week, each session lasting 4 hours on average.

Doctor checking patient's heartbeat

Nurse attending to a patient. Emergency department, Limoges hospital, France.

5th year medical students during a SimMan dummy cardiac massage workshop.

Nurse Checking on Patient

Shock room in the intensive care unit of a university hospital.

Examination male patient with a stethoscope. Emergency department of Bordeaux hospital, France.

Shock room in the intensive care unit of a university hospital

Care of a patient's foot ulcer. Wound cleaning and dressings.

Morphine pump.

Support by the firemen of the department 80 and the teams of the SMUR of Abbeville, emergency doctor, State certified nurse anesthetist (IADE) and paramedic of a person victim of a fall at his home. The dislocation of the shoulder will be reduced by the emergency doctor at the hospital. The treatments are carried out in a box dedicated to the non-COVID 19 patient. The dislocation of the shoulder will be reduced by the emergency physician at the hospital. The elderly person will return home the same evening with the arm and shoulder in a splint.

Reportage in the sleep laboratory at Lyon-Nord Rillieux polyclinic. Carrying out a polysomnography exam over night. Polysomnography consists of recording, during sleep, several physiological variables in order to determine certain sleep disorders. Explaining the ways to call in an emergency or if necessary.

Support by a team from SMUR d'Abbeville, emergency doctor, State-certified nurse anesthetist (IADE) and firefighter from SDIS 80 of a pregnant person about to give birth at home. Support up to the delivery room of the maternity ward.

Pregnant woman in the prenatal clinic, healthy pregnancy, on the ultrasound appointment, checking heartbeat before childbearing

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

Patient undergoing an electrocardiogram. Emergency Department, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France.

Patient lying in a special bed, intubated, medical appliances for medical treatment and artificial respiration of the patient, automatic monitoring of vital functions, intensive care unit, hospital

Pregnant woman before delivery. Obstetrics and gynaecology department, Saintonges hospital, Saintes, France.

Reportage in the maternity ward of Saint Maurice hospital. A woman pregnant with twins is hospitalised as her cervix is too dilated.

Stockholm, Sweden Aug 28, 2025 A unidentified man lays in a guerney in a hospital hallway.

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