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Images showcasing various medical and wellness practices, including nursing, cosmetic preparation, and emergency training in a healthcare environment.

Bronchiolitis epidemic in a hospital pediatric ward.
Bronchiolitis epidemic in a hospital pediatric ward.
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Bronchiolitis epidemic in a hospital pediatric ward.
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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.
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Nurse preparing drip bags.
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Close-up of Beautician painting her client’s nails in blue and yellow nail varnish in a beauty centre. Close-up of Beautician painting her client’s nails in blue and yellow nail varnish.
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For two days, nurses and emergency nurses undergo training at the Montpellier School of Medicine on emergency procedures and resuscitation. Manipulation of Arterial Catheter.
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Nurse home visit and care with a patient parenteral nutrition, Home medical care department of Limoges hospital, France.
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Nurse filling a medical records. Neonatalogy department, Robert Debré hospital, Paris, France.
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Close up of elder patient signing checkup documents
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Close up of elder patient signing checkup documents
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Medical check-up run by IPL (Lille Institut Pasteur) in Arras, France. IPL delocalise these check-ups to help fragile sectors of the community who cannot travel to the Institute itself. A nurse tests the patient's eye sight.
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Pedicurist
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Internal emergency physicians are trained in emergency procedures during simulation workshops on a SimMan mannequin. On this exercise, the interns will have to intervene in the case of a person suffering from a severe asthma attack. They will have to find the right actions to restore the patient's functions as a matter of urgency.
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Students fabricate dental appliances during classes at the Medical Education and Training Center (METC), Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, October 20, 2022. The METC on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, trains enlisted medical professionals in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. One of METCs 48 programs of instruction is the multi-service Dental Laboratory Technology program in which Army, Navy, and Air Force students learn how to fabricate complete dentures, Removable Partial Dentures (RPD) and treatment appliances, crowns and bridges, metal-ceramic restorations, and dental implants using both analog and digital dental technology processing methods. Graduates of the program wishing to pursue an academic degree can utilize the METC Degree Bridge Program, which applies college credit for military training and work experience.
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Reportage in a state nursing home in Haute-Savoie, France. The nurses hand out medicine at meal time.
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Medical equipment disinfection. Bordeaux hospital, France.
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Doctor evaluating patient for sonar adjustment
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Female cosmetician in safety glasses at work. She providing a foot treatment with a laser
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Doctor taking a female teenager's blood sample.
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Reportage on the Jeunes Pousses, a follow-up care and pneumo-pediatric rehabilitation unit specialising in climate therapy for asthma. The centre is located in Briançon, Frances highest town, which is part of WHOs Healthy Cities programme. At this altitude the oxygen partial pressure is reduced which has a positive effect on the cardio-vascular system. The concentration of allergens is also reduced. Briançon is one of the top places for high-altitude climate therapy due to its hours of sunlight, almost total lack of fog, its very low hygrometry, its almost total lack of dust mites, the scarcity of damp, its short pollen season and a very low levels of pollution. Romane, 12, suffers from asthma and comes from Lyon. She arrived at the Jeunes Pousses this year. Since she arrived her illness has stabilised. She carries out a PFT (pulmonary function test) under the supervision of a physiotherapist.
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5th year medical students during an IV placement workshop. Students train on an arterial arm allowing arterial and venous puncture for blood sampling. The arm allows work on the Cephalic, basilic, radial and cubital veins as well as the radial and brachial arteries for infusion and blood sampling.
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Reportage in the epileptology unit in Nice Hospital, France. Long-term EEG (3 days) for a check-up of partial epilepsy.
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Reportage in an audio prosthesist practice. Adjusting hearing aids.
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Reportage in a centre for esthetic medecine (Paris). Tattoo removal session without scarring, using an Alexandrite laser.
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U.S. Navy HN Mae A. Senin, a corpsman with the Armed Services Blood Program (ASBP) at Navy Medical Readiness Training Command Portsmouth prepares for a blood drive at Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 30, 2022. The ASBP hosted a quarterly blood drive at Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, Marine Forces Command, Marine Forces Northern Command 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.
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Arrupe Karuna Krom outreach program run by the Catholic church (jesuits) in Battambang, Cambodia. Spanish dentist.
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Optician
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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.
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Reportage on Anne-Cécile Ratsimbason, a fashion designer for chronic patients in Nice, France. Anne-Cécile helps the patients by creating bespoke clothing and accessories that are adapted to the pathology and physical condition. Once the protoype has been designed, she works in the pattern construction studio with the woman who makes her ideas become reality. Fée produces the pattern and makes the final prototype that enables a small or large series to be produced. They are seen working together here on a cuddly toy for a baby insulin pump.
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5th year medical students during an IV placement workshop. Students train on an arterial arm allowing arterial and venous puncture for blood sampling. The arm allows work on the Cephalic, basilic, radial and cubital veins as well as the radial and brachial arteries for infusion and blood sampling.
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Young tween girl getting her eyes tested
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Within the Orthosud company, custom-made orthotics and orthopedic insoles are created for different pathologies or comfort. Creation of an orthosis using a moist heat thermoformable plate. Hot application and adjustment to the patient's arm.
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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.
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Cpl. Josh Veigel of Littleton, Colo., elevates a bag of saline above his heart after getting an IV from Spc. Josh Keadle of Thornton, Colo., in Colorado Springs, Colo., March 11, 2009. Veigel and Keadle, who are both assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 157th Field Artillery, Colorado Army National Guard, take turns giving one another an IV. Both successfully give an IV and pass this portion of the course.
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Functional rehabilitation of a hemiplegic woman. Occupational therapy session. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Limoges hospital, France.
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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 does a blood test.
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Covid 19 vaccine for seniors at a vaccination center in France.
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Preparation of the dose of vaccine against Covid-19 by a nurse in a vaccination center. Abbeville vaccination center (80), Pfizer vaccine.
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Checking blood pressure
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Physiotherapy center specializing in hand, elbow and shoulder pathologies before or after operation. Weber test, tactile discrimination.
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Functional rehabilitation of a hemiplegic woman. Occupational therapy session. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Limoges hospital, France.
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Functional assessment and advice on technical aids made by an occupational therapist with a patient with joint pain, Limoges hospital, France.
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Reportage in a dermatology practice in Geneva, Switzerland. Consultation.
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Reportage in the St Grégoire Hospital group in Rennes, France. Short-stay unit. After visiting the rooms, the nurse notes down the patients vital signs.
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General practitioner with child, Geveze, France.
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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.
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France, Drugstore, Pharmacist With Prescription
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Kim Blackwell, Mississippi State Department of Health emergency planner, and Sarah McCain, Mississippi State Department of Health emergency preparedness nurse, and U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Marissa Stove, 81st Diagnostic and Therapeutics Squadron diet technician, participate in moulage training at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, Sept. 28, 2022. The training was held in preparation for the upcoming mass casualty exercise in October. The purpose of adding moulage to simulated victims is to make the scenario as realistic as possible, so first responders can treat them and react appropriately according to the injuries.
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Physiotherapy center specializing in hand, elbow and shoulder pathologies before or after operation. Work with elbow orthosis in extension following an unoperated radial head fracture.
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Reportage in a pediatric practice in Lausanne, Switzerland. Auscultation under a heat lamp.
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Reportage in an independent midwife practice in Ham, in the Somme region of France. Foetal doppler scan to hear the baby's heart.
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For two days, general practitioners are trained in pediatric emergency procedures. A child is suffering from severe breathing difficulties.
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Reportage on art therapy in Ham hospitals long-stay unit, France. Art therapy sessions are carried out in the Adapted Care and Activity Hub (Pôle dActivités et de Soins Adaptés - PASA). This hub cares for patients with behavioural disorders and provides them with an individual or group therapy activity in order to maintain or rehabilitate their motor, cognitive and sensory functions as well as social ties. The art therapist attaches great importance to self-esteem. She considers that touch, contact and considerate gestures are vital for the success of the workshops.
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Report at the Avre pharmacy in Roye.
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Eine konzentrierte Krankenschwester in einem weißen Laborkittel bereitet sorgfältig eine Spritze für eine Injektion in einer professionellen medizinischen Umgebung vor. A focused nurse in a white lab coat carefully prepares a syringe for an injection in a professional healthcare environment ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/benisxarapovicx 23144714 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released
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Reportage on a pediatrician who specializes in attachment theory in Lyon, France. A consultation at 4 months old. Health records.
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For two days, general practitioners are trained in pediatric emergency procedures. A child is suffering from severe breathing difficulties.
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Of blood on a Common Caiman France
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Reportage in a psychiatric hospital in Malévoz, Swizerland. The hospital treats adults suffering from mental illness requiring care that aims to relieve existential and/or relational suffering. Occupational therapy session.
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Reportage on Lara, 10, who suffers from cystic fibrosis. Once a year, Lara has to stay in the Zeepreventorium centre in Belgium which specialises in treating young people suffering from cystic fibrosis. She stays there for three weeks. Her day there starts with treatment and a respiratory physiotherapy session.
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Physiotherapy center specializing in hand, elbow and shoulder pathologies before or after operation. Post-operative scar work by vacuotherapy, therapy which promotes tissue softening.
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Army Reserve Spc. Hannah Olson, a combat medical specialist assigned to the 94th Combat Support Hospital, applies special effects makeup to Army Reserve Pvt. Sherri Elliott, a combat medical specialist assigned to the 456th Area Support Medical Company, during a moulage class at the Combat Support Training Exercise 91-22-01 at Fort Hunter Liggett, California, June 13. During the training, Soldiers learn to apply artificial wounds to create realism for medical training scenarios. Examples of wounds that can be simulated with this technique are burns, deep cuts, compound fractures and deep bruises.
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little girl getting haircut while wearing medical mask
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pattern scissors tape measure and a sewing machine
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Staff Sgt. Katherine Buckallew, 139th Medical Group Homeland Response Force (HRF), practices suturing on orange peels during trauma training at Camp Clark, Nevada, Missouri, June 8, 2022. The HRF established a footprint to simulate a deployed environment and practiced various medical procedures.
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Life saving skills on comprehensive first aid course. Learning to combat food poisoning emergencies
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Kim Blackwell, Mississippi State Department of Health emergency planner, and Sarah McCain, Mississippi State Department of Health emergency preparedness nurse, participate in moulage training at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, Sept. 28, 2022. The training was held in preparation for the upcoming mass casualty exercise in October. The purpose of adding moulage to simulated victims is to make the scenario as realistic as possible, so first responders can treat them and react appropriately according to the injuries.
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Work on the gastroesophagal region by an osteopath.
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Reportage in a weekly hospitalization service in the endocrinology unit of a hospital in Savoie, France. Diabetic patients are hospitalized for a week to undergo an assessment on their diabetes: evolution of the diabetes, dietary habits and therapeutic education. A patient monitors her blood sugar level after her meal.
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High angle of woman in mask making manicure to crop female client
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Physical Therapist practicing stretching and flexibility of a 12 year old girl suffering from scoliosis.
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Reportage on Lara, 10, who suffers from cystic fibrosis. Once a year, Lara has to stay in the Zeepreventorium centre in Belgium which specialises in treating young people suffering from cystic fibrosis. She stays there for three weeks. Her day there starts with treatment and a respiratory physiotherapy session. Every morning and evening she has to use her aerosols (Pulmozyme et Mucoclear).
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Photo essay at Lyon hospital, France. Department of urology. Planning.
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Private nurse at the home of a diabetic patient for the injection of insulin after the realization of a capillary glycemia. Report of data on the quarterly monitoring logbook for diabetics over 75 treated with insulin.
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female doctor in a practice showing asthma spray
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Reportage in a post-natal clinic in Champigny, France. Since leaving the neonatal unit, the twins (3-months old) are checked every week to follow their growth. Consultation with the post-natal clinic doctor.
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Ophthalmology office. Masked patient and doctor - Covid 19. Cabinet secretary.
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Disabled worker working in the ESAT product packaging workshop . Preparation of tubing kits for the treatment of swimming pool water.
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Medical check-up run by IPL (Lille Institut Pasteur) in Arras, France. IPL delocalise these check-ups to help fragile sectors of the community who cannot travel to the Institute itself. The patient has a hearing test.
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Within the Orthosud company, custom-made orthotics and orthopedic insoles are created for different pathologies or comfort. Création of an orthosis following a sprain of the metacarpophalangeal joint. Molding of the plate which has been previously heated on the segments to be immobilized. Wrist, hand, finger.
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Airman 1st Class Sydney Oberg, 60th Inpatient Operations Squadron critical care technician, washes her hands after rendering aid in the intensive care unit at David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, California, July 19, 2022. Critical care technician perform portions of medical treatment, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
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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.
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Pediatrics
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Occupational therapy session in the aftercare and rehabilitation department of a hospital
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Reportage in the Vinci Clinic in Paris, France. Decontamination and sterilisation of endoscopy equipment.
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Masked pedicurist grinds dry skin of client's foot
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Oncology department, Patient with cancer receiving chemotherapy in day hospital, France.
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Reportage on a mountain rescue doctor working in both the Carroz and de Flaine ski resorts in Haute-Savoie, France. He treats skiers and snowboarders who have been injured on the slopes. A doctor and intern plaster a young patient who has a buckle fracture following a skiing accident.
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Ocular biometry consists in determining certain measurements of the eye, such as eye length, corneal curvature: examination is essential before cataract surgery Masked patient and doctor - Covid 19.
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A teenage schoolgirl learns to sew protective masks on an overlock during a pandemic. Training young people in real workplaces gives positive results. ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/DANIELxDROBIKx 16230546 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released
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Photo essay at Lyon hospital, France. Department of urology.
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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.
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Physiotherapy center specializing in shoulder pathology before or after operation. Therapeutic education support. Shoulder joint model.
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Reportage on Anne-Cécile Ratsimbason, a fashion designer for chronic patients in Nice, France. Anne-Cécile helps the patients by creating bespoke clothing and accessories that are adapted to the pathology and physical condition. Once the protoype has been designed, she works in the pattern construction studio with the woman who makes her ideas become reality. Fée produces the pattern and makes the final prototype that enables a small or large series to be produced. They are seen working together here on a cuddly toy for a baby insulin pump.
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dentist checking results on a patient
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Physical therapy with TENS machine
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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.
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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.
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Reportage in a psychiatric hospital in Malévoz, Swizerland. The hospital treats adults suffering from mental illness requiring care that aims to relieve existential and/or relational suffering. Occupational therapy session.