Clinical Procedures and Practices

Snapshots of nurses and doctors performing various medical tasks from handwashing to preparing samples and patient treatment.

Elderly man reading a newspaper

Female nurse wiping her hands after wash

Reportage in an allergy specialist practice in Geneva. The allergy specialist prepares the desensitizing equipment.

Doctor taking a blood sample from a patient in a hospital

Reportage in a Swiss biobank which specialises in storing stem cells from blood in the umbilical cord (hematopoietic stem cells) and stem cells from tissue from the umbilical cord (mesenchymal stem cells). The stem cells are stored at -150° in liquid nitrogen.

Reportage in Descartes University, Paris, France where Vizua 3D is based. Vizua provides real-time 3D visualisations for doctors using imagery from patients. Doctors can then print these visualisations in 3D. Printing a 3D visualisation of a pelvis.

Dental technician examining dentures

Hospital catering service: production in the kitchen then rapid cooling of food for a 3-day conservation.

Elderly man reading a newspaper

Reportage in the French National Police's Criminal Research Institute in Rosny-sous-Bois, France. The Anthropology, Thanatology & Odontology Department (ATO).

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

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Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Melissa Bassarra, a Dental Technician with the Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Pendleton prepares to assist with a dental exam at Weimea Elementary School in Lihue, Hawai'i, on June 19, 2022. Tropicare 2022 is an Innovative Readiness Training exercise and provides real world training in a joint civil and military environment while strengthening the community relationship by providing medical, dental, and optometry services to the people of Hawai'i.

Laundry room of the Atelier de l'adage Saporta. Disabled person in charge of laundry and cleaning kitchen and user work clothes.

Nurse. Preparation of drip bags. Bordeaux hospital, France.

medical school student practicing surgery on pig meat

Photo essay at Rouen hospital, France. Department of pneumology. Last-minute blood type test.

Life Sciences Division (code SL) laboratories and personnel Tammy Cleek

Health, inspection or people in restaurant with tablet, hygiene or food safety in online checklist. Sanitation, review or inspector in kitchen with tech, quality control or compliance in cafe service

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

Surgeon washing hands before operation

Criminologist police chemist looking at crime evidence

Oncology department. A compounder is preparing chemotherapy treatments under laminar air flow hood.

Report from the radiotherapy department of a hospital in Savoie. Radiotherapy session to treat brain metastases. A mask is applied to the patient to prevent movement during the treatment. The treatment is carried out with the Truebeam.

Reportage at a French Blood Establishment blood donation session in Haute-Savoie, France.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Devin Watson, 81st Medical Group, vascular surgeon and St. Lucia Lesser Antilles Medical Team troop commander, scrubs into surgery at Owen King European Union Hospital, Castries, St. Lucia, Feb. 26, 2024. LAMAT stands as a symbol of partnership through medical readiness, offering real-world benefits to achieve positive outcomes through collaboration with St. Lucia. Air Force

Reportage at Pause Diabolo, a risk reduction centre for drug users, in Lyon, France. Pause Diabolo sees drug users as part of a national French policy to reduce health hazards. This multidisciplinary helps deals with all aspects of life that are affected by drug use. It involves making risk reduction equipment available, helping with access to care, hygiene help, social mediation and helping gain access to benefits as well as social and professional reintegration. Access to risk reduction equipment is possible during opening house. The centre hands out sterile equipment and recovers used equipment. Beyond this access, the employees advise drug users on reducing health risks during drug taking.

Trainee, orthopaedic technician, making an orthosis

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. James J. Wissminn, an infantry officer and future operations planner with Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic (FMFLANT), Marine Forces Command (MARFORCOM), Marine Forces Northern Command (MARFOR NORTHCOM) donates blood at Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 30, 2022. The Armed Services Blood Program (ASBP) hosted a quarterly blood drive at FMFLANT, MARFORCOM, MARFOR NORTHCOM to create an accessible opportunity for U.S. Marines to donate. The ASBP is the official military provider of blood to service members, veterans and military families.

Photo essay at Lyon hospital. Department of urology. Surgical treatment of erectile dysfunction with a penile prosthesis. Preparation of the prosthesis.

Surgeon washing his hands at Hotel Dieu de France hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.

Educational room in which the nurse explains to the parents which are the good and bad products to use for their baby. Here a pie mold to avoid because food is encrusted in the dish.

Staff Sgt. Kacy Hikel, a Dental Assistant with the 101st Medical Group Bangor Maine inspects sterilized dental equipment at Weimea Elementary School in Lihue, Hawai'i, on June 19, 2022. Tropicare 2022 is an Innovative Readiness Training exercise and provides real world training in a joint civil and military environment while strengthening the community relationship by providing medical, dental, and optometry services to the people of Hawai'i.

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

Within the Orthosud company, custom-made orthotics and orthopedic insoles are created for different pathologies or comfort. Creation of custom thermoformed insoles. Gluing the correction elements that make up the sole.

Reportage at Château de la Manderie in Ouzouer des Champs, France, a nursing home for Alzheimer sufferers. Nurse preparing medecine for the residents.

Histological examination with dye bath

Reportage in a pharmacy (France).

Chiropodist at work

Report from the Gynecological Surgery Department of Antoine-Béclère Hospital (92). IVF (in vitro fertilization): retrieval of oocytes for the laboratory.

Two lab technicians putting on sterile protective clothing

Photo essay in the department of diabetology at Saint-Louis hospital, Paris, France. Professor Patrick Vexiau endocrinologist and diabetologist, the head of diabetology department.

health protection, safety and pandemic concept - male chef cook wearing face protective medical mask over restaurant kitchen background. male chef with in face mask at restaurant kitchen

people volunteering together donating facility 1 . Resolution and high quality beautiful photo. people volunteering together donating facility 1 . High quality and resolution beautiful photo concept

US Air Force AIRMAN First Class Heather Vandevender, 31st Medical Support Squadron Dental Clinic, Aviano Air Base, Italy, gives a dental patient flouride treatment. The dental clinic at Aviano Air Base, Italy, provides care for active duty service members, deployed guard/reserve troops, retirees and dependents. Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA)

Reportage in the French Arkopharma lab in Nice, France. This pharmaceutical lab is specialized in the phytotherapy, natural medicine and dietary supplement sectors. It is the European market leader. At the lab: carrying out analyses on turmeric capsules.

Doctor looking at a list with allergens

Low angle view of a surgeon washing his hands

Photo essay at Rouen hospital, France. Department of cardiac surgery. Nurse in treatment room.

Medicine, at least in GP practices, among specialists and in hospitals, were not much different in the 1990s than they are today. Iserlohn. Home visit by a family doctor, DEU, Germany, Iserlohn, Europe

Sunday March 15 in Dinan in Brittany, vote of the first round of the municipal and community elections with the sanitary precautions of the coronavirus.Dimanche 15 Mars a Dinan en Bretagne, vote du premier tour des elections municipales et communautaires avec les precautions sanitaires du coronavirus.

Nurse. Preparation of drip bags. Bordeaux hospital, France.

Male dental technician working on A 3D printed mold for tooth implants in the lab

Reportage in the French Arkopharma lab in Nice, France. This pharmaceutical lab is specialized in the phytotherapy, natural medicine and dietary supplement sectors. It is the European market leader. Cryogenic grinding: this technique uses nitrogen, freezing the plant which becomes breakable.

Reportage on a session producing natural cosmetics in the Lyon School of Medicinal Plants. The participants produce several care products using vegetable oils, macerated oils, plant infusions, floral water, essential oils etc. This procedure, that respects health and the environment, enables the composition of ingredients to be controlled and excludes the harmful character of some chemical ingredients. Lip gloss balm.

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (April 1, 2022) Indy Nenn, a Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command contractor, examines a sample from Hickam Main Child Development Center as part of an interagency-approved plan for long-term monitoring of drinking water. The U.S. Navy continues to work with federal, state and local organizations to support families and residents, conduct long-term monitoring of the Navy water system, and work toward remediating Red Hill Well and the surrounding area. For detailed information, go to: www.navy.mil/jointbasewater.

The famous Santa Maria Novella perfume company, Florence, Italy

Ocularist making an artificial eye

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

Pharmacist at Naval Health Clinic Hawaii conducts inventory at the Branch Health Clinic Kaneohe Bay Pharmacy on July 26, 2022. Branch Health Clinic Kaneohe Bay is one of five branch clinics that make up Naval Health Clinic Hawaii.

Reportage in the Vinci Clinic in Paris, France. Decontamination and sterilisation of endoscopy equipment.

grooming, shaving and people concept - barber softening male clients face skin with hot towel at barbershop. barber softening clients face skin with hot towel

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

Liberal country nurse at the home of a diabetic patient for a foot dressing.

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

Reportage in the French National Police's Criminal Research Institute in Rosny-sous-Bois, France. The Anthropology, Thanatology & Odontology Department (ATO).

France, Brittany, Dinan, 18/12/2021. Covid-19 vaccination centre in Dinan, Brittany. Preparation of vaccine doses. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Dinan, le 18/12/2021. Centre de vaccination contre la Covid-19 a Dinan en Bretagne. Preparation des doses de vaccin. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

The clinical research in molecular oncology brings to the patients who wish it, the discovery of new molecules or new therapeutic strategies. Human Molecular Oncology laboratory of Oscar Lambret cancerology center, Lille, France.

France, Brittany, Tinteniac on 2021-09-23. Animal mediation session at the EHPAD of Tinteniac Maison de Retraite Sainte-Anne. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Tinteniac le 2021-09-23. Seance de mediation animale a l EHPAD de Tinteniac Maison de Retraite Sainte-Anne. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

female physician helping patient to walk on a treadmill

Pharmacy.

Boy with broken arm cutting block during rebuilding house

Surgeon washing his hands

ADMR 62 - Home Help in Rural Areas, Pas de Calais. Muriel, Auxiliary of Social Life (AVS) works at the home of Mr. T. who is severely handicapped by Multiple Sclerosis. Muriel must help her with all the daily tasks. Carer wearing soap and towel before washing.

dentist taking a teeth radiography to a patient

Seabird rescue, contaminated Common Guillemot (Uria aalge) being cleaned by people, washed ashore after contamination from polyisobutene oil additive at sea, affecting waterproof coating and ability to float, RSPCA West Hatch, Somerset, England, February 2013

Woman using a centrifuge machine to prepare a detox juice.

Activities at Main Interior's Health Office, staffed by nurse Barbara Hayden

DATE: 7-3-13LOCATION: Bldg 9NW - ISS Mockups.SUBJECT: Expedition 36S crew members, Kotov, Ryazansky and Hopkins and 37S crew (Wakata, Tyurin, Mastracchio) during Emergency Scenarios Training.

Dental technician, dental technology, modelling on lower jaw partial dentures with wax, Germany, Europe

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) infant held by Zhang Guiquan, Deputy Director at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Wolong Nature Reserve, China

U.S. Army Capt. Kevin Messamer, a medical operations officer with the Wyoming National Guards 84th Civil Support Team (CST), prepares test samples from the mobile laboratory parked at the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory in Cheyenne, Wyoming, May 4, 2020. The 84th CSTs primary mission is to support the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory with testing. The mobile lab is equipped with a rapid diagnostic testing platform that allows for a faster turnaround time for high priority specimens.

The SMUR emergency service operates throughout the region 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Moments of relaxation at night at the SMUR.

Reportage in the Internal Medecine and Geriatrics service in Saint-Philibert hospital in Lille, France. Handing out medicine before a meal.

Female dental technician applying porcelain to A 3D printed implant mold in the lab

Hygiene measures in a pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Normandy, France.

Reportage in a functional neurological exploration unit. Epilepsy screening and follow-up consultation. The patients take a video EEG (electroencephalogram), during which they are subjected to various stimuli, both auditive and visual. The patterns are then analysed by the neurologist. A nurse sets up electrodes.

Nurse preparing samples to be analysed.

ADMR 62 - Home Help in Rural Areas, Pas de Calais. Veronique, Auxiliary of Social Life (AVS) intervenes in the home of Mr. and Mrs. B., severely handicapped by Alzheimer's disease. Veronique must help him with all the daily tasks. The role of family caregiver is sometimes heavy for the spouse to bear. Auxiliary of life with the breakfast bowl of a dependent elderly person.Editorial Only

homebound man with medical gloves drinking a cup of tea . prevention concept covid-19 concept. man with medical gloves drinking a cup of tea

Patient has his hands in a phototherapy box for an irradiation treatment, UV light therapy at a dermatologist, Germany, Europe

Broken wrist control x-ray of a 6-9 year old Caucasian girl with plaster, France, Europe.

Occupational therapy session in a hospital psychiatric unit.

Occupational therapy session in a hospital psychiatric unit.

Reportage in an adult psychiatric unit in the Nant Foundation in Switzerland. Occupational therapy session.

A member of the 1ST Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron checks medical records during a flight transporting wounded U.S. servicemen to a medical facility. The servicemen were wounded during the multiservice, multinational Operation Urgent Fury on Grenada. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Unknown

Photo essay at Rouen hospital, France. Department of cardiac surgery. Nurses in treatment room.

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