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Surgical Procedures and Patient Care

Images illustrate medical professionals engaged in various surgical and intensive care procedures, showcasing the seriousness and precision required in healthcare.

Photo essay at Lyon hospital in France. Department of urology. Prostatectomy. This hospital has a robotic surgical system (Da Vinci Surgical System made by Intuitive Surgical) designed to facilitate complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach. Visiport Plus Optical Trocar.

Medical team preparation. Operating theatre. Hospital Fann. Sénégal. Dakar.

England,London,Southwark,HMS Belfast Museum,Ship's Operating Theatre Exhibit

Medical staff monitoring patients at the Intensive care unit of the Liege hospital which is badly impacted by Covid 19. Liege, Belgium.

Woman getting epidural anaesthetic injection prior to delivery. Obstetrics and gynaecology department, Saintonges hospital, Saintes, France.

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

Surgeons Operating on Patient, Cairns General Hospital, FSA Farmworkers Community, Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, February 1942

Reportage in the hepatology service of Archet Hospital, Nice, France. A gastrostomy, a procedure enabling the installation of parenteral nutrition. The operation is carried out by endoscope.

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.here in the room of an intubated patient on ECMO.

Cardiac surgery at Hotel Dieu de France hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.

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

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.

Cosmetic surgery clinic. Buttock lipofilling. Lipofilling (also called liposculpture or lipomodeling) is a technique that consists of removing fat from areas where there is too much, to reinject it into the parts of the body that need to be reshaped. Buttock lipofilling makes the buttocks firmer, higher and more rounded. Bétadine brushing.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brian Russell, right, an ophthalmology technician with the Health Engagements Assistance Response Team (HEART) 2022, adjusts the screen on a portable microscope while Guatemalan ophthalmologists perform eye surgery at Unidad Nacional de Oftalmología in Guatemala City, Aug. 23, 2022. In addition to assisting with surgeries, HEART 22 brought medical equipment for partner nation medical teams to train on. This particular piece of equipment allows ophthalmologists to conduct surgeries in more remote areas where operating rooms are not as available.

Woman Having Eggs Implanted As Part Of IVF Treatment

Surgeon using smart phone having discussion with colleagues in hospital

Morphine injection into a child's spine.

Shock room in the intensive care unit of a university hospital.

Marina Clément, cardiac surgeon, in the absence of activity in her specialty intervenes in the medical resuscitation service to provide support and give information to families of patients with Covid-19. Medical resuscitation service - Jacques Cartier Hospital - Massy .

The Heart Institute offer high-quality care to Vietnamese patients suffering from heart diseases. Intensive care unit.

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.

240227-N-FB730-1121 SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS (Feb. 27, 2024) Capt. Jamie Fitch, a general surgeon with Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) 11 from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune, sutures a head laceration in the trauma bay at Hospital Nacional Mario Catarino Rivas, San Pedro Sula, Honduras on Feb. 27, 2024. In collaboration with joint forces and the host nation, Expeditionary Medical Unit 10 G conducted its first Global Health Engagement in Honduras enhances expeditionary core skills and exchanges knowledge with Honduran healthcare professionals in a limited resource environment. Navy

The French Vietnamese Association of Pneumology aims to develop exchanges between the French and Vietnamese medical structures, here at the Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital in Ho Chi Minh Ville, Vietnam. French surgeons and anesthetists share experience and knowledge with their Vietnamese colleagues. Here, anesthetists performing general anesthesia for thoracic surgery.

Reportage in the maternity department of Santa Maria Clinic in Nice, France. Cesarian birth.

Woman getting epidural anaesthetic injection prior to delivery. Obstetrics and gynaecology department, Saintonges hospital, Saintes, France.

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 respect 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. Preparation of equipment, respirator, anti-decubitus mattress.

Medical intensive care unit at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. Since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, all of the beds in the department have been reserved for the reception of patients in need of respiratory assistance. Hospital agents, caregivers, nurses, interns, doctors are mobilized with patients to ensure continuity of care. At each change of team, all the nursing staff of the service meet for the transmissions. Moment allowing to take stock of the state of each patient and to adjust the medical protocol.

Woman getting epidural anaesthetic injection prior to delivery. Obstetrics and gynaecology department, Saintonges hospital, Saintes, France.

Weighing of a patient in the intensive care unit.

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.

Anaesthetist administering an epidural anesthesia to a patient about to undergo caesarean childbirth.This image may only be used to portray the subject in a positive manner

Surgery for a wounded Serb soldier in the Bosnian Serb Army's First Krajina Korp's field hospital.

US Navy Medics from the Fourth Medical Battalion perform surgery during the humanitarian relief operation, Exercise FAIRWINDS '96, at Vaudrveil Hospital in Croix-des-Bouquets outside of Port-au Prince, Haiti. This exercise is part of the Medical Readiness Training the medics receive throughout the year. The medics go to a different location everyday in the Port-au-Prince area to give medical support to the local Haitians. Subject Operation/Series: FAIRWINDS '96 Country: Haiti (HTI)

GIZO, Solomon Islands (Sept. 1, 2022) Cmdr. Donald Lucas, from Dallas, left, fixes an electric cauterizing machine with local doctors to prepare for laparoscopic surgery on a patient at the Gizo Medical 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 will include participants from the United States, Japan and Australia.

30-year-old patient with pneumothorax. A drain is placed to eliminate the air located in the pleural space.

Professor Gynecologist and his students during a course in gynecology at the medical university of Nimes. Placement of a speculum and vaginal smear

Reportage in the stereotactic neurosurgery operating theatre in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Treating Parkinsons disease through deep brain stimulation. This technique consists of implanting electrodes in the brain, which modulate abnormal cerebral electrical activity. Carrying out the pre-op MRI scan. The scan will enable electrode targets and trajectories to be established.

120117-N-MH561-116 INDIAN OCEAN (Jan. 17:: 2012) Lt. Jacob Pletcher induces general anesthesia on a patient about to undergo surgery in the operating room of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln is in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR) as part of a deployment to the western Pacific and Indian Oceans en route to the U.S. 5th Fleet AOR.

Treatments carried out by the nursing teams of the medical resuscitation department of an intubated pateint. Patients with coronavirus hospitalized in intensive care are placed on their stomachs as required by the procedure. Upswing is a technique to improve oxygenation in patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Pediatric resuscitation simulation workshop at the Nimes Faculty of Medicine.

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.

A surgical team from the 325th Medical Group practices a procedure during Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

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.

Caregiver cleaning medical material. Recovery room. Bordeaux hospital. France.

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

Robotics

Medical intensive care unit at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. Since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, all of the beds in the department have been reserved for the reception of patients in need of respiratory assistance. Hospital agents, caregivers, nurses, interns, doctors are mobilized with patients to ensure continuity of care. Pizza delivery ordered by the staff for dinner.

Management of a patient in the emergency department. During the treatment, the elderly person clings to the barrier of the stretcher.

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.

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

Capt. Jamison Meints, a registered nurse with the 155th Medical Group, Nebraska, checks routine vitals on a patient in the intensive care unit on Aug. 3, 2022, at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Okinawa, Japan. Members of the 155th Medical Group, Nebraska, and the 139th Medical Group, Missouri Air National Guards traveled to Okinawa for their annual training.

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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.

Woman at hospital

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.

221117-N-VQ41-1033 CARTAGENA, Colombia (Nov. 17, 2022) Lt. Cmdr. Richard Moses, an anesthesiologist from Newark, New Jersey, assigned to hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), prepares a young Colombian patient for reconstructive surgery aboard the Comfort, Nov. 17, 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

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (Apr. 24, 2022) - A surgeon, assigned to Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF) Juliet, prepares a patient for surgery during EMF Juliets operational readiness evaluation (ORE). The ORE was conducted at Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute and evaluates patient throughput capability, assesses coordination across functional areas, and teamwork. This training supports the Surgeon Generals Tiered Readiness Program and showcases Navy Medicines ability to generate and maintain ready medical forces.

Medical intensive care unit at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. Since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, all of the beds in the department have been reserved for the reception of patients in need of respiratory assistance. Hospital agents, caregivers, nurses, interns, doctors are mobilized with patients to ensure continuity of care. At each change of team, all the nursing staff of the service meet for the transmissions. Moment allowing to take stock of the state of each patient and to adjust the medical protocol.

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.

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

060813-N-2832L-007. Base: Usns Mercy (T-AH 19)

NAVAL BASE GUAM (May 26, 2022) - Lt. Anthony Foster and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Melody Houston gave a tour of the operating room onboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) following its arrival at U.S. Naval Base Guam (NBG) May 26. Mercy is en route for Pacific Partnership 2022, which is now in its 17th year and is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific region. The Pacific Partnership 2022 team will work with host nation counterpart and regional partners to provide tailored medical, dental, and veterinary care, and conduct bilateral engineering civic actions, and exchange information related to disaster response procedures. The port stop at NBG will provide the crew time for rest and relaxation, conduct mission preparations, perform routine maintenance, and load additional supplies onto the ship.

Blurred surgeon using photo camera to shoot breast of female patient before performing mammoplasty in modern hospital

Patient with eye bandaid after cataract surgery.

Preparation of the dose of vaccine against Covid-19 by nurses in a vaccination center. Abbeville vaccination center (80), Pfizer vaccine.

Preparation of the dose of vaccine against Covid-19 by nurses in a vaccination center. Abbeville vaccination center (80), Pfizer vaccine.

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

TAMC 4H Oncology Team

Airman 1st Class Traevonne Greene, 190th Air Refueling Wing, Kansas Air National Guard health service technician, watches as Treatha Hadley, Homestead of Topeka medication aide, holds the mask securely to test the N95 protective masks ability to filter airborne particles during a fit test demonstration at Homestead of Topeka, Topeka, Kansas, May 6, 2020. The N95 masks are used by the Homestead of Topeka staff to minimize spread of diseases, such as COVID-19 and will strengthen their defense response while continuing to care for all residents.

010727-F-4860D-004. Subject Operation/Series: MEDFLAG 01-02 Base: Nampula Country: Mozambique (MOZ) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

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.

060825-N-1577S-034. Base: Kupang Country: Indonesia (IDN)

Transmission meeting at the hospital.

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