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

Male and female mechanics with quad

Hands of healthcare worker giving gift to senior man at home

PUERTO BARRIOS, Guatemala (Oct. 31, 2022) Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Hunter Davis, from Santa Rosa, California, sanitizes medical equipment aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), Oct. 31, 2022. Comfort is deployed to U.S. 4th Fleet in support of Continuing Promise 2022, a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Reportage in the Amaryllis Nursing Home in Nice, France. Residents taking their medication at mealtime.

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

Young man passed out after abusing drug cocaine

Reportage in the sleep laboratory at Lyon-Nord Rillieux polyclinic. Carrying out a routine polysomnography on a patient suffering from sleep apnea. This routine polysomnography evaluates the comfort of a patient treated with a respiratory aide device and the benefits of the treatment. 7am : the intensive care anesthetist interprets the signs recorded overnight.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Haleigh Rodriguez, 31st Medical Group pharmacy technician, left, demonstrates how to fill a prescription with an Italian host nation provider during a 31st MDG Open House event at Aviano Air Base, Italy, June 9, 2022. The 31st MDG hosted the Open House to foster new relationships and strengthen bonds previously formed with local Italian healthcare facilities and network providers.

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Donlan Gian, 1st Special Operations Medical Group pharmacy technician, pours medicine into a container Oct. 22, 2022, at Hurlburt Field, Florida. The 1st SOMDG provides optimal care to patients by ensuring pharmacy technicians are properly trained on how to verify that all products are rotated, within date and properly displayed.

Home Help in Rural Areas - Auxiliary of Life and day-to-day care of a patient with Multiple Sclerosis. Carer preparing meals for a disabled person at home.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Thermal Protection System Facility, Pilar Ryan, with United Space Alliance, stitches a piece of insulation blanket for Atlantis. The blankets will be sewn into the inside of a ring that will be inserted in the nose cap. In the background is a cover for the nose cap. The blankets consist of layered, pure silica felt sandwiched between a layer of silica fabric (the hot side) and a layer of S-Glass fabric. The blankets are semi-rigid and can be made as large as 30 inches by 30 inches. The blanket is through-stitched with pure silica thread in a 1-inch grid pattern. After fabrication, the blanket is bonded directly to the vehicle structure and finally coated with a high purity silica coating that improves erosion resistance.

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

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

Denmark - Iraqi Refugees try reaching Sweden.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Paulo Relativo, from the Philippines, works on a centrifuge at the Chuuk State Hospital in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 17, 2024. Pacific Partnership, now in its 19th iteration, is the largest multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific and works to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships.

Judith Keith, a volunteer seamstress with the Armor of Light, sews a dress during the 13th annual Ball Gown Giveaway at the Marine Corps Family Team Building Center on Camp Pendleton, California, Sept. 24, 2022. The event is hosted by volunteers with the Armor of Light who gather clothes and accessories annually to provide free gowns and seamstress services for service members or their spouses to wear at the Marine Corps Birthday Ball. The clothes were donated by members of the Camp Pendleton community.

An Interhospital Laundry.

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

Sandy Melton prepares a Patient Room Service tray at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Sep. 14, 2022. The mission of BAMCs Department of Nutritional Medicine is to provide high quality medical nutrition therapy and culinary services to service members, their families, and the community while developing elite nutrition professionals.

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

First aid training courses given by the French Red Cross.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Damon Petty, with United Space Alliance, removes an insulation blanket from a shelf prior to heat cleaning and waterproofing. The blankets fit inside the nose cap of an orbiter. They consist of layered, pure silica felt sandwiched between a layer of silica fabric (the hot side) and a layer of S-Glass fabric. The blanket is through-stitched with pure silica thread in a 1-inch grid pattern. After fabrication, the blanket is bonded directly to the vehicle structure and finally coated with a high purity silica coating that improves erosion resistance. The blankets are semi-rigid and can be made as large as 30 inches by 30 inches.

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Liberal nurse visiting an elderly person.

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. - Stephen Danko, 78th Healthcare Operations Squadron Biomedical Equipment technician, prepares to repair a stem sterilizer machine inside the clinic at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, Oct. 5, 2022. The clinic has two sterilizers, which use steam to sterilize tools and accessories used by healthcare personnel on patients.

A corpsman discusses plasma in a laboratory aboard the hospital ship USNS COMFORT (T-AH-20), underway in the Gulf in support of Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Unknown

HAD (Hospitalization At Home). Follow-up of an elderly patient at home by a nurse. Nurse checking the transmission book.Editorial Only

portrait of pharmacist reading labels

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

Within the Orthosud company, custom-made orthotics and orthopedic insoles are created for different pathologies or comfort. Création of an orthosis using a moist heat thermoformable plate. Hot application and adjustment to the patient's arm.

Madrid, 03/31/2020. Coronavirus crisis. Report on supermarkets, cashiers and stockers. Photo: Maya Balanya. ARCHDC.

SPECIALIST 4 David M. Masak fits a pair of glasses on SPECIALIST 5 Buford C. Curtis in the optical laboratory at Womack Army Hospital. Base: Fort Bragg State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Photo essay on a healer, magnetizer, massage therapist.

A temporary SARS clinic set up outside a hospital.

Umbilical cord blood for stem cell harvesting. Bag of placental blood. Obstetrics and gynaecology department, Limoges hospital, France.

LT. Robin McKenzie, a nurse at the station's hospital, adjusts the flow from an intravenous drip bottle. Base: Nas, Roosevelt Roads State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

SAN DIEGO (Feb. 25, 2023) Local high school students practice external fixation during the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics event in Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command NMRTC San Diegos orthopedic department. NMRTC San Diego's mission is to prepare service members to deploy in support of operational forces, deliver high quality healthcare services and shape the future of military medicine through education, training and research. NMRTC San Diego employs more than 6,000 active duty military personnel, civilians and contractors in Southern California to provide patients with world-class care anytime, anywhere.

Medico-psychiatric unit for teenagers and young adults. This is a place for verbal, emotional and body expression of patient's psychic suffering. Contractual short-term hospitalization aims at monitoring and preventing crisis such as suicidal behaviour, depression, eating disorder, alcoholism, phobia, etc. Here, teenagers having lunch at the cafeteria. Psychiatry unit managed by Dr Rachel Bocher, Nantes university hospital, France.

Man with Friedreich's Ataxia and deformed hands using his accessible oven

Reportage on a home health care service in Savoie, France. A nurse monitors a patients oxygenation.

Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Glenn R. Borken uses a microscope and counter to count white blood cells at the Sigonella Naval Regional Medical Clinic. Base: Naval Air Station, Sigonella State: Sicily Country: Italy (ITA)

Social caregiver separating the medicaments and supplements pills, preparing daily doses for both senior people at home. Putting the capsules in two different bottles, healthcare medicine.

budgerigar at veterinary

Veterinarian examining hoof of a horse in stable

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

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

Fabrication of anti-snoring mandibular orthosis, Foch hospital, Suresnes, France.

A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and operates throughout an entire region. Preparation of clothing.

Reportage at the Lyon-Nord Rillieux polyclinic with an ENT (Ears, Nose & Throat) and Head and Neck surgery specialist. Consultation with a patient who is suffering from a serious epistaxis (nosebleed) after sinus surgery. Examining and bandaging the patient.

Dental laboratory, manufacture of a dental prostheses by a master craftsman, making a plaster cast

Young Adult Woman ironing Trousers at Laundry Facilities in Utility Building, Osceola Migratory Labor Camp, Belle Glade, Florida, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, June 1940

Syringes are filled with the Covid19 Biontech Pfizer vaccine Comirnaty in a vaccination centre by soldiers of the German Armed Forces, Schoenefeld, 26.02.2021

A dentist from the central sickness (CZB) in the Marine Barracks Willemsoord (MKWD) in Den Helder examines the teeth of a patient (July 1989).

Chef stands in hospital kitchen with plastic trays

Traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy. Herbal medicine therapy.

Educational room in which the nurse explains to the parents which are the good and bad products to use for their baby. Avoid melamine wood because of chemical glue.

CARTAGENA, Colombia (Nov. 18, 2022)Hospitalman Savannah Howell, from Aberdeen, Washington, tapes a sign to a medical supply box as the Continuing Promise medical site in Cartagena, Colombia closes down, Nov. 14, 2022. Comfort is deployed to U.S. 4th Fleet in support of Continuing Promise 2022, a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Dec. 4, 2022) Civilian Mariner Robert Jennings, assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), pilots the transit boat returning patients to shore after the patients received medical treatment aboard Comfort in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Dec. 4, 2022. Comfort is deployed to U.S. 4th Fleet in support of Continuing Promise 2022, a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America.

030812-M-7837W-028. Base: Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base State: Al Ahmadi Country: Kuwait (KWT)

$Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California prepare to ship a prototype ventilator for coronavirus patients to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally) is designed to be faster to build and easier to maintain than traditional ventilators, with a fraction of the parts. JPL engineers created the prototype specially targeted at COVID-19 patients in 37 days in March and April 2020.$

OPTOMETRIST FITTING WOMAN WITH WITH NEW GLASSES AT MIRROR SELECTING FRAMES

Report to the Central Production Unit (UCP) of an University Hospital catering service.

Shaman working with feathers

Blood transfusion, Angoulême hospital, France,

China, Yunnan, Kunming. Preparing medicines at Fu Lin Tang, the Old Pharmacy, which dates back to 1857, Kunming.

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Plaster cast, making a prosthesis, master student during apprenticeship, orthopaedic technicians school for master of the chamber of handicrafts, Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

1ST LT. Robert Tritle and CAPT. Linda Shields, both registered nurses at Womack Army Hospital, confer with MAJ. (Dr.) Claire M. McQuail, an administrative resident. Base: Fort Bragg State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Residential home for alzheimer's disease elderly person, Bordeaux hospital.

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

Young veterinarian examining turtle in clinic

Close-up of nutritionist measuring waist to patient. View of a male nutritionist measuring female patient waist. Concept of weight loss and professional nutritionist

Mikayla Anthony sets aside supplies for the upcoming weekend at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Sep. 14, 2022. The mission of BAMCs Department of Nutritional Medicine is to provide high quality medical nutrition therapy and culinary services to service members, their families, and the community while developing elite nutrition professionals.

cooking, pandemic and health concept - happy smiling female chef in protective medical mask over restaurant kitchen background. female chef in medical mask and toque

Capt. (Dr.) Jeffrey Helfrich, officer in charge of the veterinary services, Area Support Group - Kuwait, reviews documents before neutering a stray cat at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, 5 Oct. 2022. ASG - KU has a program to spray or neuter, vaccinate and microchip cats, before either being sent to a shelter or released back on Camp Arifjan based on temperament.

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

Reportage in a level 2 neonatal unit in a hospital in Haute-Savoie, France. A nurse looks after a newborn baby.

Nurse preparing food with senior woman in rest home

cooking, safety and health concept - female chef in protective medical mask and toque with hand sanitizer or liquid soap over restaurant kitchen background. female chef in mask with hand sanitizer or soap

Functional rehabilitation of a hemiplegic woman. Occupational therapy session. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Limoges hospital, France.

Various photos from the field of medicine, here 18.7.1997 in Iserlohn, Iserlohn, pharmacy, DEU, Germany, Iserlohn, Europe

Portrait of a female nurse holding an iv drip

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

Chambermaid arranging bottles on push cart while standing in hotel corridor

060318-N-2385R-055. Base: Naval Hospital, Yokosuka Country: Japan (JPN)

Hurricane Katrina, Plaquemines Parish, LA, November 7, 2005 -- Medical professionals stock crutches inside the innovative Mobile Medical Unit along State Route 23.

Rubbing one leg with iodine in front of an operation, Duesseldorf, Germany, Europe

A clinical specialist with the Army Health Services Command prepares prescription cream for the out-patient pharmacy. Country: Unknown

The chemist, apothecary, Imola, reenactment

Chaville Fraternite, association producing masks and medical clothing during the COVID-19 pandemic. France.

Thailand, Bangkok, Khaosan Road, Woman Receiving Typical Beauty Treatment

Man cutting a carcass with a knife France

Reportage at CENAS, a Swiss sleep centre. A patient fills in a questionnaire and sleep diary before undergoing a polysomnography.

Doctor and assistant in vet clinic checking up kitten

Reportage on an independent nurse in Haute-Savoie, France. Aline travels round her small mountain town every day to meet her patients. She also has a practice in town that she shares with two other colleagues. Aline visits a patient to prepare her pill dispenser.

Therapist prepare burning mugwort or moxa herb to apply to 50s adult fit caucasian female patient to facilitate healing and blood flow, in naturopathy clinic, chinese traditional medicine concept

Rehabilitation centre for adult disabled persons, Dordogne, France.

Traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy. Herbal medicine therapy.

John J. Walup, a civilian dental laboratory technician, prepares wax for a crown and bridge in the dental clinic at the medical department activity (MEDDAC) health services complex. Base: Fort Sheridan State: Illinois (IL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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