Intensive Care and Nursing

Scenes from hospital intensive care units, illustrating nurses tending to patients and performing medical observations in a clinical setting.

Cardiac monitoring on a stroke patient hospitalized in intensive care, Neuro-Vascular Unit (UNV) CHU Bordeaux.

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France. A student nurse checks the flow of oxygen.

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

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France. A nurse notes down a patient's vital parameters.

Reportage in the orthopedic service of Robert Bellanger Hospital in France. Nurses treating a bedsore.

Cardiac monitoring on a stroke patient hospitalized in intensive care, Neuro-Vascular Unit (UNV) CHU Bordeaux.

Emergency Medical Services. Limoges hospital, France.

A 30-year-old patient consults for chest pain and breathing difficulties.

For two days, nurses and emergency nurses undergo training at the Montpellier School of Medicine on emergency procedures and resuscitation. The nurses train on a crisis situation and must react in real time and use the right gestures when faced with the dummy in intensive care. During the scenario, students must choose the right drugs, medication to administer to the patient.

An 81-year-old patient undergoes an injected brain scanner to detect a stroke.

Electrocardiogram. Emergency department of Bordeaux 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.

Reportage in the pediatric unit in a hospital in Haute-Savoie, France. A nurse with a patient.

Reportage in the oncology department of a day hospital in France. Auxiliary nurse, Marie-Cécile, works here three days a week as a hospital beautician. She provides beauty treatment to women with cancer and solutions to cope with the side effects of cancer treatments. These moments are conducive to one-to-one conversations. She gives a patient beauty treatment during a chemotherapy session.

Medical student watching surgical procedure. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Limoges hospital, France.

Reportage with a team of physiotherapists in a hospital in Haute-Savoie in France. A physiotherapist mobilizes a patient in intensive care.

Anaesthetist nurse. Recovery room. Bordeaux hospital. France.

Patient was thrombolysis after stroke. Here, visit the neurologist and clinical examination. Intensive Care Unit Neuro-Vascular (UNV) CHU Bordeaux.

Nurse preparing the list for the cleaning room. Intensive care department. Lagny Marne-la-Vallée hospital, France.

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

Reportage in the pediatric emergency unit in a hospital in Haute-Savoie, France. A nurse and an auxiliary nurse talk to a young patient and her mother.

Reportage in the maternity service of Métropole Savoie hospital in Chambéry, France. A planned cesarean delivery. Intern and patient before the intervention.

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

Pediatric nurse and a premature newborn baby, CHU Bordeaux France.

Patient was thrombolysis after stroke. Here, visit the neurologist and clinical examination. Intensive Care Unit Neuro-Vascular (UNV) CHU Bordeaux.

Anaesthetist nurse. Recovery room. Bordeaux hospital. France.

Nurse talking to patient. Emergency department, Limoges hospital, France.

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. Cardiac massage is performed to resuscitate the newborn.

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

Anaesthesia.

Caregiver and anaesthetist nurse. Recovery room. Bordeaux hospital. France.

Reportage in A&E at Diaconesses Croix St Simon hospital in Paris, France. Two nurses give a patient an ECG in the trauma room.

Reportage in Bligny hospital palliative care unit, Briis sous Forges, France. A nurse and auxiliary nurse looks after a patient.

Anaesthetist nurse. Recovery room. Bordeaux hospital. France.

Thrombectomy performed under cerebral angiography on a patient with symptoms of a stroke, Neuro-Vascular Unit (UNV) CHU Bordeaux.

The cardiology intensive care department of Saint-Philibert hospital (GHICL) in Lille, France. A nurse dispensing care and checking the medical monitor of a patient.

For two days, nurses and emergency nurses undergo training at the Montpellier School of Medicine on emergency procedures and resuscitation. The nurses train on a crisis situation and must react in real time and use the right gestures when faced with the dummy in intensive care. During the scenario, students must choose the right drugs, medication to administer to the patient.

Woman at hospital

Reportage in the epileptology unit in Nice Hospital, France. Epilepsy diagnosis: EEG in a 52-year old patient hospitalized in the neurology service following a series of seizures. The EEG measures cerebral electrical activity.

Snoring treatment by frequence radio, here gargle before local anesthesia Foch hospital, Suresnes, France.

Paediatric nurse and premature twins newborn babies. Obstetrics and gynaecology department, Saintonges hospital, Saintes, France.

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

Pediatric resuscitation simulation workshop at the Nimes Faculty of Medicine.

For two days, nurses and emergency nurses undergo training at the Montpellier School of Medicine on emergency procedures and resuscitation. The nurses train on a crisis situation and must react in real time and use the right gestures when faced with the dummy in intensive care.

Senior dentist woman performing surgery putting implant into sick man mouth

Reportage in the Rothschild Foundations intensive care unit in Paris, France.

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.

Home to obstetrical emergencies in the maternity ward. Set up an infusion.

Hemodialysis session.

A team of healthcare professionals working together in a hospital nursery or neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Medical specialist examining x-ray

Hemodialysis session.

Student nurse. Intensive care department. Lagny Marne-la-Vallée hospital, France.

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

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

Treatment of breast cancer by radiotherapy, Angouleme hospital, France.

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

Anesthesist and anaesthesia monitoring screen.

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France. A nurse and nursing auxiliary giving a patient a bed bath.

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France. Three nurses and a nursing auxiliary look after a patient.

Two doctors, wearing blue surgical gowns and caps, consulting with patient in hospital

woman undergoing an electroencephalogram (EEG). Limoges hospital, France.

Reportage in A&E at Diaconesses Croix St Simon hospital in Paris, France. A nurse places a drip.

Reportage with the intensive care medical team of the Paris fire brigade. These teams only intervene in life-threatening cases. The doctor a patient who is complaining of chest pains.

Dental clinic, dentist doctor and assistant examining the teeth of an elderly woman lying on the table

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

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

Using infrared thermometer

Resuscitation training on a dummy. Various health professionals are trained in the evolution of practices, care and emergency procedures within the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier. They must work on serious cases of daily life faithfully reproduced on a SimMan dummy. Here, respiratory arrest on a man in his forties.

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 was rushed by SMUR Montpellier to the hospital. He is cared for by an emergency doctor assisted by doctors from the SMUR.

Nurse. Intensive care department. Lagny Marne-la-Vallée hospital, France.

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France. A nurse looks after a curarised patient.

Reportage in the Rothschild Foundations intensive care unit in Paris, France.

Nurse, Intensive care department, Lagny Marne-la-Vallée hospital, France,

Bronchiolitis epidemic in pediatric wards of a hospital.

Patient hemodialysis, transfusion for anemia. Here, the card used for the UPTC Diagast (Ultimate Control Pre-transfusion) allows the nurse to check the compatibility of blood groups of donor and patient transfused. Limoges hospital, France.

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

Reportage in A&E at Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon hospital in Paris, France. Doctors and nurses in the trauma room.

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.

A medical team preparing a patient for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.

Physiotherapist and newborn baby placed under respiratory assistance Maternity department, Cochin hospital, Paris, France

Photo essay at the maternity of Saint Maurice hospital in France. Woman pregnant with twins in the labor ward.

Resuscitation training on a dummy. Various health professionals are trained in the evolution of practices, care and emergency procedures within the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier. They must work on serious cases of daily life faithfully reproduced on a SimMan dummy. Here, respiratory arrest on a man in his forties.

Radiotherapy radiographer is setting up a drip. Radiotherapy center, pole of Oncology, Hospital of Bordeaux. Hospital Haut-Leveque.

Radiologist setting up Image Control Unit

Doctor discussing with patient in medical room at hospital

Blood transfusion of anemic patient during a hemodialysis session. Nurse according to the protocol control Transfusion. Limoges hospital, France.

A patient is brought in the service of the medical imaging to have one MRI which will show the state of the hurts of his brain. Paca, France.

Resuscitation training on a dummy. Various health professionals are trained in the evolution of practices, care and emergency procedures within the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier. They must work on serious cases of daily life faithfully reproduced on a SimMan dummy. Here, respiratory arrest on a man in his forties.

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

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

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.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.-U.S. Army 1st Lt. Josh Hagen and Capt.Hannah Earl, both critical care nurses assigned to the 14th Field Hospital, monitor hospital equipment during the COVID-response operationsatthe hospitalinProvidence, Rhode Island,Jan.23, 2022.U.S. Northern Command, through U.S. Army North, remains committed to providing flexible Department of Defense support to the whole-of-government COVID response. (U.S. Armyphoto by Sgt. Kaden D. Pitt)

Electroencephalography, EEG, patient in neurological brain examination, neurology in hospital, Czech Republic, Europe

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.

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

Reportage in Bligny hospital palliative care unit, Briis sous Forges, France. A nurse takes a patient's blood pressure.

Medical personnel assisting a child on a scale

Premature newborn baby placed under respiratory assistance, Pediatrics department, Bordeaux hospital, France.

In the family doctor's consultation. Paediatrics, Germany, Europe

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