Surgical Procedures

Scenes from surgical operations, including various specialties and techniques, highlighting professional medical environments.

Surgical laparoscopy and hysteroscopy exploration here, treatment of endometriosis, Limoges hospital, France.

Photo essay with an Emergency Medical Service team of Pontoise hospital (France). Pediatric emergency. A newborn child has breathing difficulties. The Emergency Medical Service team intervenes in the maternity then transfers the newborn child to another hospital.

Photo essay at Rouen hospital, France. Laser surgery for nearsightedness. In a first time a corneal disk (thin lamelle of cornea) is cut up by femtoseconde laser. Then, the surgeon by lifting this section will treat the eye by excimer laser. The corneal disk is then replaced without suture.

Cardiology department of Saint-Philibert hospital (GHICL) in Lille, France. Electrophysiology operating theatre. Radiofrequency ablation for an irregular heart beat (tachycardia), supervised through radiography.

Photo essay at Lyon hospital. Department of urology. Phalloplastie, operation of plastic surgery to create a phallus, required to complete a change of sex, following a hystéro-ovariectomie.This takes place in two steps. Here step 2. Step 1: it's the creation of a neo-penis from a fragment of skin taken from the arm. The skin, the nerves, the veins and the arteries are taken from the not dominant arm to constitute the urethra, the acorn and the penis. The vaginal cavity is blocked and the big lips are used for the scrotum. The nerves which innervate the clitoris are protected, they will innervate the penis, in order to keep an orgasmic capacity after the intervention. Step 2: after the penis found its sensibility, testiculaires implants and implant are added to make an erection possible on demand. Here, preparation of the erectile prosthesis.

KILUUFI, Solomon Islands (Sept. 8, 2022) — Cmdr. Donald Lucas, from Dallas, right, and a local surgeon perform a hernia repair on a patient at the Kiluufi Provincial Hospital during Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Pacific Partnership is a unifying mission that fosters enduring friendships and cooperation among many nations. The years mission in Solomon Islands includes participants from the United States, Japan and Australia.

Childbirth by vaginal route. The midwife accompanies the mother in the labor for childbirth.

Report at the maternity hospital of the Abbeville - Somme hospital (80). Childbirth by vaginal route. The midwife accompanies the mother in the labor for childbirth.

Doctors with bag valve mask caring for patient in emergency care unit of a hospital

Reportage in the Interventional Cardiology and Rythmology service in Saint George Clinic in Nice, France. Radiofrequency ablation of cardiac arrhythmia using the Stereotaxis robotic system. This operation consists of inserting a catheter into the heart, emitting radio waves that will cauterize cardiac tissue responsible for rhythmic irregularity. The Stereotaxis robotic system is a magnetic navigation system. It uses a rotating magnetic field enabling the ablation catheter to be guided from a distance. The system consists of two giant magnets placed on each side of the operating table. The operation is carried out under radioscopic control. It is a more precise technique that reduces the risk of complications, procedure length and the patients and radiologists exposure time to x-rays. A patient suffering from atrial fibrillation.

Surgeon wearing mask standing with nurse working in background at hospital

Reportage at the Mozart Plastic Surgery clinic in Nice, France. Insertion of breast implants, via the armpit, in a patient who has no mammary glands. The surgeon detaches the skin in order to create a passage for the implants.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Kaleb Sherwood, middle right, from Layton, Utah, works side-by-side with local Micronesian surgical technicians during a manual small incision cataract surgery aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) anchored off Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 13, 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 and stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships.

a group of surgeons are busy in the operating room

$Reportage at the New Vision clinic in Nice, France. This clinic is one of the main centres for refractive surgery in France, with cutting-edge technology for all eye laser operations. Eye operation using the SMILE (Small Incision Lenticule Extraction) laser technique. It is a new generation of treatment which enables short-sightedness to be corrected without removing the superficial layer of the cornea, nor opening it. The SMILE technique involves producing with the Femtosecond laser, a lenticule (thin slice) in 3D in the thickness of the cornea, and removing it with a microincision in the shape of a smile. The worse the short-sightedness, the thicker the lenticule.$

Two male surgeon inside the operating room

Radiofrequency ablation of a liver tumor.

060505-N-2832L-075. Complete Scene Caption: Onboard the US Navy (USN) Military Sealift Command (MSC), Hospital Ship, USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), USN Hospital Corpsman (HM) Megan Beach (left), checks the quality of blood through a cell saver, during training conducted for an antilogous blood transfusion. The USNS MERCY is currently underway in the Pacific Ocean, conducting a scheduled five-month deployment to deliver aid and humanitarian assistance to the Pacific Islands, and Southeast Asia.2006) Hospital Corpsman Megan Beachan anesthesiologist technicianpractices checking the quality of the blood after cleaning it through a cell saver in an operating room aboard Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19). The medical crew aboard Mercy will provide general and ophthalmology surgerybasic medical evaluation and treatmentpreventive medicine treatmentdental screenings and treatmentoptometry screeningseyewear distributionpublic health training and veterinary services as re

Tam Duc Cardiology Hospital. Operating theater. Cardiac surgery. Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam.

Reportage in the interventional neuroradiology service in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Emergency treatment of an ischemic stroke through thrombectomy. This procedure consists of mechanically removing the clot endovascularly using fluoroscopy.

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jennifer Loran, from Spokane, Washington, records a Chuukese patient's anesthesia vital signs during a left radius nonunion repair aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), anchored off of 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.

060813-N-2832L-020. Base: Usns Mercy (T-AH 19)

Department of Endocrinology of the Pr Jacques Bringer, hospital Lapeyronie, University hospital of Montpellier, France. A doctor is filling an implanted insulin pump of a patient with insulin.

Three surgeons performing a surgery in an operating room

Heart surgery (catheterism) Paris. France.

Anesthetist in the operating room, Czech Republic, Europe

Surgeons Operating On Patient

Woman undergoing a myomectomy (removal of one or more uterine fibroids) in the obstetrics unit of the Rouen University Hospital.

Doctor with colleagues preparing for surgery in operating room

An ophthalmologist and medical technicians prepare to remove a cataract from a patient in an operating room aboard the hospital ship USNS MERCY (T-AH-19). The ship is visiting various ports in the Philippines during the first phase of its five-month humanitarian medical service and training mission. While in the Philippines, U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force medical personnel embarked aboard the MERCY are providing treatment for indigent Filipinos, both ashore and aboard ship. Country: Philippine Islands

Orthopedic operating theatre, Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France, Medullary liberation and arthrodesis, patient suffering from lumbar stenosis caused by arthritis, operation consists of freeing boney elements from the vertebral canal and consolidating the spine with an arthrodesis, carried out using the pre-op 3D imagery O-Arm system. Arthrectomy. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

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 doctors 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 and gloves. Management of a patient who died of COVID 19 and transfer to a hospital death room.

Emergency, hospital bed and surgeon team, healthcare staff or group running for surgery, clinic services or medical help. Injury collaboration, fast motion blur or doctors rush for accident first aid

Operating theatre nurse is tying surgeons green surgical

Photo essay from the Diaconesses hospital in Paris, France. Department of urology. Da Vinci® Robotic prostatectomy. The da Vinci System enables the doctor to perform a minimally invasive surgery with enhanced vision, precision, dexterity and control. While sitting at the ergonomic console, the surgeon controls the system, which translates his hand movements into smaller, more precise movements of tiny instruments inside the patients body.

Portrait of surgeon in operating room

Cardiology Hospital. Intensive care unit. Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam.

Report at Nice University Hospital, Pasteur Hospital, for a radical prostatectomy with lymph node dissection on a 66-year-old patient suffering from high-risk prostate cancer according to the D'Amico classification. Here in the operating room, preparations for the operation. FRANCE.

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Saint George Clinic, Nice, France. Fitting a dual mobility hip prosthesis in a patient suffering from osteonecrosis. Preparing the instruments before the operation.

Knee replacement, artifical knee joint, operation

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. Return of the patient carried out under the responsibility of the resuscitator.

Morphological Pathology Laboratory. Prion diseases study. Brain sections.

Preparing a dog to a veterinary surgery

Surgeon washing hands before operation

Photo essay at Rouen hospital, France. Laser surgery for nearsightedness. In a first time a corneal disk (thin lamelle of cornea) is cut up by femtoseconde laser. Then, the surgeon by lifting this section will treat the eye by excimer laser. The corneal disk is then replaced without suture.

A Guatemalan Ophthalmologist assigned to Unidad Nacional de Ofralmologia, UNO, Guatemala, performs eye surgery on a patient, Sept. 1, 2022, at UNO. During HEART 22, the U.S. military and partner nation medical professionals operated side-by-side in three specialties: Ophthalmology (general and cornea transplant surgeries), Orthopedic (general and trauma surgeries) and Dental (restorative dental surgeries).

A Guatemalan Ophthalmologist assigned to Unidad Nacional de Ofralmologia, UNO, Guatemala, performs eye surgery on a patient, Sept. 1, 2022, at UNO. During HEART 22, the U.S. military and partner nation medical professionals operated side-by-side in three specialties: Ophthalmology (general and cornea transplant surgeries), Orthopedic (general and trauma surgeries) and Dental (restorative dental surgeries).

Photo essay at Rouen hospital, France. Laser surgery for nearsightedness. In a first time a corneal disk (thin lamelle of cornea) is cut up by femtoseconde laser. Then, the surgeon by lifting this section will treat the eye by excimer laser. The corneal disk is then replaced without suture.

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.

Tam Duc Cardiology Hospital. Operating theater. Cardiac surgery. Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam.

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). Isolating stem cells from cord blood.

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.

Operation, monitoring of vital functions, Germany, Europe

Medical resuscitation service at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. All of the beds in the ward since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic have been reserved for the reception of patients requiring respiratory assistance. Hospital workers, nursing assistants, nurses, interns, doctors are mobilized with patients to ensure the permanence of care. To avoid contamination, all personnel must comply with the rules for wearing masks, coats, aprons, glasses, gloves.

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. Result of a blood gas analysis presented by a nursing assistant to the nurse in charge of patient care

Nurse with oxygen mask

Female operating nurse talking to patient on table in operating room

Reportage in the neonatal unit of Robert-Debré hospital in Paris, France. Preparing bottles with breast milk.

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Patient with coronavirus talking to doctor in protective suit

Serious adult man in medical uniform standing under bright lamps in operating room looking away.

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

Medical resuscitation service at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. Room of a patient on artificial respiration affected by Covid 19. Placement of a peripheral venous catheter allowing to have a vascular route to administer therapies.

A minimally invasive operation, presented here on 6.5.1997 at the St. Marienhospital in Muehlheim, is an operation that uses a computer tomograph (CT) to give the surgeon a permanent picture of his operation on the screen. The patient is exposed to X-rays for a long time, DEU, Germany, Europe

Hospital of the mother and child, pediatric surgery department of the CHU of Limoges. Parents accompany their child to the block, assists with anesthesia and are present in the recovery room. Nurse anesthetist explaining to a child the outcome of surgery.

Medical resuscitation service at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. All of the beds in the ward since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic have been reserved for the reception of patients requiring respiratory assistance. Hospital workers, nursing assistants, nurses, interns, doctors are mobilized with patients to ensure the permanence of care. To avoid contamination, all personnel must comply with the rules for wearing masks, coats, aprons, glasses, gloves.

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 ventilator.

Capt. Tanya Tsosie draws blood from a simulated Ebola patient Oct. 24, 2014, during a week-long training course at the San Antonio Military Medical Center, Texas. Tsosie is a nurse assigned to a 30-member medical response team designed to support civilian medical professionals in the event of an Ebola outbreak in the United States.

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 in need of respiratory assistance. Hospital workers, nursing assistants, nurses, interns and doctors 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 and gloves. Distribution of meals to patients who can eat alone.

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 in need of respiratory assistance. Hospital workers, nursing assistants, nurses, interns and doctors 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 and gloves. Management of a Covid 19 patient, transferred by Samu 91. First examinations and analyzes carried out by the doctor and all nursing staff.

U.S. Air Force Col. (Dr.) Richard Townley, left, an ophthalmologist with the Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, trains Guatemalan ophthalmologists on how to use and set up a portable cataract machine at Unidad Nacional de Oftalmología (UNO) in Guatemala City, Aug. 23, 2022. This is the first time ophthalmologists at UNO have used a portable cataract machine.

Reportage in the ophthalmology service in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. In the operating theatre, treatment of a retinal detachment through vitrectomy. The doctor preparing the operating field.

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 in need of respiratory assistance. Hospital workers, nursing assistants, nurses, interns and doctors 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 and gloves. Management of a Covid 19 patient, transferred by Samu 91. First examinations and analyzes carried out by the doctor and all nursing staff.

Surgeons operating

Interventional neuroradiology, Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France, Treating a cerebral aneurysm through embolization, an endovascular treatment introducing catheter into brain filling the aneurysm with platinum coils to clot it and prevent splitting, carried out under fluoroscopic guidance, The anesthetist nurse uses an oxygen mask before intubation. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

Newborn resuscitation in the maternity ward of a hospital.

Medical resuscitation service at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. Transport to the operating room of a patient on artificial respiration with Covid 19.

St. Charles Clinic. The rock on yon. Operating room. Nurse and physician surgeon.

Vintage Photograph. Medical professional in a hospital operating room preparing for surgery.

Orthopedic surgery, Saint George Clinic, Nice, France, Treating a torn cruciate ligament using the Sambba technique, carried out under arthroscopy, reconstructing the torn ligament with a transplant taken from the knee, The marker guide (in red). (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

Woman giving birth by ceasarean. Obstetrics and gynaecology department, Saintonges hospital, Saintes, France.

220516-N-XZ205-1098SAN DIEGO (May 16, 2022) Capt. Gordon Wisbach, Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) San Diegos Virtual Medical Operations Center (VMOC) telesurgical director, uses a robotic surgical system during a robotic-assisted gallbladder removal surgery at NMRTC San Diego May 16. During the surgery, Wisbach communicated with Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton staff members remotely, per approved protocol, for telementoring. 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.

Surgical team against medical x-ray on screen in operating room

The introduction of modern technology in urology, a blessing for doctors and patients, here in laser technology for the removal of bladder and kidney stones is unstoppable. The picture shows the trial use of a laser device with the urology team at Elisabethhospital, DEU, Germany, Europe

a surgeon is in front of the controls of a robot in the operating room

DN-ST-87-05800. Base: Legaspi Country: Philippines (PHL)

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

Report from the Gynecological Surgery Department of Antoine-Béclère Hospital (92). Professor René FRYDMAN, Head of Department. Follicular puncture for IVF (in vitro fertilization): collection of follicular fluid containing oocytes. This procedure is performed vaginally under ultrasound guidance.

Woman receiving epidural anaesthesia before delivery. Maternity department, Cochin hospital, Paris, France.

Reportage on the practice of hypnosurgery. Dr Perelmuter has been an anesthetist for 30 years and decided to train in hypnosis 10 years ago. Currently more than a quarter of surgical procedures that he takes part in are carried out under hypnosis. Hypnosedation results in an altered state of consciousness in the patient, who enters a hypnotic trance. It is a form of detachment which allows the patient to focus on pleasant things. Pain levels are altered, but this state fluctuates. During the procedures, theatre staff talk little so as not to disturb the patients trance. The use of hypnosedation allows local anesthetics to be used instead of general ones.

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 doctors 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 and gloves. Management of a patient who died of COVID 19 and transfer to a hospital death room.

Physician assistant wearing protection face mask to prevent infection with coronavirus

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