Surgical Procedures and Teamwork

Images depict medical professionals in surgical settings performing orthopedic and reconstructive surgeries, showcasing teamwork, focused environments, and various surgical tools.

Medical, operation and teamwork with doctors in hospital together for procedure on patient. Emergency, healthcare and surgery with people operating in scrubs for intervention, rescue or support

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

Shoulder surgery.

Woman undergoing a myomectomy (removal of one or more uterine fibroids) in the obstetrics unit of the Rouen University 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. Size C implants have been inserted, the surgeon and his assistant suture the opening.

Reportage in the gynecology theatre block in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Laparoscopy removal of a fibroma.

GIZO, Solomon Islands (Sep. 1, 2022) Cmdr. Donald Lucas, from Dallas, right, and Michael Belande Buin, a general surgeon, suture 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 year’s mission in Solomon Islands will include participants from the United States, Japan and Australia.

GIZO, Solomon Islands (Sep. 1, 2022) Cmdr. Donald Lucas, from Dallas, right, and Michael Belande Buin, a general surgeon, suture 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 year’s mission in Solomon Islands will include participants from the United States, Japan and Australia.

Surgeons working

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.

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

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Saint George Clinic, Nice, France. Treating a torn cruciate ligament with ligament surgery using the Sambba technique. The operation, carried out under arthroscopy, consists of reconstructing the torn ligament with a transplant taken from the knee.

Senior Airman Claire Hagen, an Orthopedic Specialty Technician assigned to 103rd Medical Group, Connecticut Air National Guard, CT, retrieves a surgical tool during an operation being conducted in support of Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, (HEART 22,) at Hospital Regional de Occidente in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala on August 30, 2022. 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).

Surgeons talking in operating room

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

Examen gynecologique en oncologie couplé avec une endoscopie vésicale ou cystoscopie. Cancers de l'appareil génital féminin. Clinique Internationale Hannibal.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®.

Reportage in the iLumens laboratory, during a day dedicated to ongoing training for midwives and obstetrician gynecologists, on the theme of resuscitation in the birthing room. The iLumens lab (University Lab for Medical Teaching using Digital and Simulation Technologies) is in Paris Descartes University and organises initial, specialised and ongoing training for all health care professionals.

Reportage in the Cardiology Department of Lille hospital, France. Hybrid cardiac surgery operating theatre equipped with the Discovery IGS 730 imaging system. Treatment of a thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysm (celiac artery) by endovascular means by Professor Stephan Haulon and his team.

Surgeons and nurses in uniform concentrating and operating patient using special equipment in operating room of contemporary hospital

Reportage in the interventional scanner service in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Vertebroplasty- cementoplasty operation to treat a vertebral facture. The technique consists of injecting, under image guidance, a biocompatible cement mixture into the weakened vertebra to consolidate it.

KILUUFI, Solomon Islands (Sept. 8, 2022) — Cmdr. Donald Lucas, from Dallas, left, 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.

U.S. Army Surgeon General Maj. Wertin, from the 28th Combat Support Hospital, sews up a Soldier's wound May 16, 2007, at Camp Marez in Mosul, Iraq, after the Soldier was hit by shrapnel during an insurgent attack.

Health

Photo essay at Lyon hospital, France. Department of urology. Sex reassignment sugery (transgender FtM). Here hystero-ovariectomy under laparoscopy. Operation which precedes the phalloplasty (hysterectomy, ovariectomy, vaginectomy).

Reportage on the removal of a cerebral tumor (glioma) while awake at Nice Hospital, France. Awake surgery consists of waking the patient during the operation in order to precisely locate, using electrical stimulation, crucial areas for vital functions (language, motor function etc.), with the aim of preserving them during the ablation of the tumor. The patient is awake and the speech therapist carries out cognitive tests. The electrical stimulation on contact with the neuronal network disturbs these tests and leads to a failure in the requested tasks. This enables the surgeon to know if he is in a vital area.

Asian Professional surgeons team performing surgery in the operating room, surgeon, Assistants, and Nurses Performing Surgery on a Patient, health care cancer and disease treatment concept

Reportage in the Osteoarticular Infections Referral Centre (CRIOA) at Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon hospital in Paris. Septic surgery, removing an internal fixation in the ankle following an infection. To avoid infection spreading, the operating theatre team wear scrub overalls that have to be taken off when leaving theatre.

Tech. Sgt. Bret Frohner, a dental technician with the 155th Medical Group, assists during an oral surgery Aug. 2, 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 Japan to improve career-field competencies and validate tasks alongside their counterparts.

Portrait of doctor surgeon during operation

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.

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.

Emergency services of the Abbeville hospital, COVID area, transfer of a patient, diagnosed negative, to a medical department.

Surgeons putting on uniform

Reportage in the gynecology operating theatre in Santa Maria Clinic in Nice, France. Removing the fallopian tubes by laparoscopy. Stitches.

Photo essay at Lyon hospital, France. Department of urology. Sex reassignment sugery (transgender FtM). Here hystero-ovariectomy under laparoscopy. Operation which precedes the phalloplasty (hysterectomy, ovariectomy, vaginectomy).

Two medical professionals in scrubs and masks are engaged in a conversation. One is holding a phone to their ear.

Paul Strauss cancer center is specialized in breast cancer surgery, pioneer in the sentinel node technique, first node of the lymph trunk to be affected by metastasis. The sentinel node is located by lymphoscintigraphy, removed and immediatly sent to anapathology department for analysis. If the node containes cancerous cells, all the nodes of the lymph trunk will be removed. This technique is an alternative to heavy intrusive surgery. Here, the sentinel node being removed. Paul Strauss Cancer Ce

Reportage in the interventional neuroradiology service in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Treating a cerebral aneurysm through embolization. This endovascular treatment consists of introducing a catheter into the brain and filling the aneurysm with platinum coils in order to clot it and prevent it splitting. The embolization is carried out under fluoroscopic guidance. The anesthetist nurse reassures the patient.

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

KILUUFI, Solomon Islands (Sept. 8, 2022) Cmdr. Donald Lucas, from Dallas, left, and local surgeons 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.

Reportage in the gynecology theatre block in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Laparoscopy removal of an ovarian cyst. Once he has removed the cyst, the surgeon deals with the hemostasis of the operation area. He uses an aspirating and cleaning system that cleans the interior of the stomach.

91 year old Ellsworth Wareham, a Seventh Day Adventist and complete vegetarian for the past 40 years, builds a fence in the back

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, intubation of the patient.

Team of doctors performing heart operation

Female nurse and surgeon in scrubs during surgery

Sinus computer assisted surgery (neuronavigation). Surgeon performing functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Limoges hospital, 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.

Nurse assisting doctor during surgery

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. Break of a catether by the resuscitator and an intern

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.

Reportage on a cesarean under hypnosis, in the maternity ward of Saint-Grégoire hospital in Rennes, France. The anaesthetist hypnotises the patient while setting up the spinal anesthesia, then maintains the hypnotic state during the entire operation

GIZO, Solomon Islands (Sep. 1, 2022) U.S. Navy Cmdr. Donald Lucas, from Dallas, left, and Michael Belande Buin, a general surgeon from the Solomon Islands, right, perform laparoscopic surgery on a local 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.

Asian Professional surgeons team performing surgery in the operating room, surgeon, Assistants, and Nurses Performing Surgery on a Patient, health care cancer and disease treatment concept

U.S. Army medical personnel from the 256 Field Hospital out of Twinsburg, Ohio and Belizean medical personnel, count medical instruments during Resolute Sentinel 22 at Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan, Belize, Aug. 24, 2022. Resolute Sentinel builds partnerships and improves interoperability with Belizean so together we can rapidly respond to a crisis or help our partners when support is required.

ESMERALDAS, Ecuador (Oct. 23, 2018) Members of the surgical services directorate aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) perform gallbladder surgery on a patient. Comfort is on an 11-week medical support mission to Central and South America as part of U.S. Southern Commands Enduring Promise initiative. Working with health and government partners in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Honduras, the embarked medical team will provide care on board and at land-based medical sites, helping to relieve pressure on national medical systems caused partly by an increase in cross-border migrants. The deployment reflects the United States enduring promise of friendship, partnership and solidarity with the Americas.

Maternity service, Métropole Savoie hospital, Chambéry, France, planned cesarean delivery, . (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

U.S. Air Force Maj. Rondre Baluyot, a dentist with the Health Engagements Assistance Response Team (HEART) 2022, works alongside a Honduran oral maxillofacial surgery resident to perform a molar extraction on a patient at Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 18, 2022. HEART 22 consists of Air Force and Army medical and support personnel working alongside partner nation medical professionals to assist in addressing critical medical needs of regional communities by providing high-impact medical services.

Suriname medical technicians observe surgery inside a newly opened operating room at Paramaribos Academic Hospital during the Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team mission in Suriname, Feb. 21, 2024. This is the second iteration of the LAMAT mission deploying U.S. Air Force ready-medics to Suriname, offering real-world benefits to achieve positive outcomes through collaboration with partner nations. Air Force

Hand Surgery

Surgical team performing surgery to patient in sterile operating room. In a surgery room lit by a lamp, a professional and confident surgical team provides medical care to an unconscious patient.. Surgical team performing surgery to patient in sterile operating room.

Removal of a bone screw with the help of a monitor showing x-ray

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Léman hospital, Thonon, France. Operating theatre. The nurses prepare the operation.

Wounded Iraqis in Amman, Jordan

Pediatric resuscitation simulation workshop at the Nimes Faculty of Medicine.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. The anesthetist and anesthetist nurse prepare the patient for the operation.

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery operating theatre in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Medullary liberation and arthrodesis in a patient suffering from lumbar stenosis caused by arthritis. The operation consists of freeing boney elements from the vertebral canal that are compressing it, and consolidating the spine with an arthrodesis. This operation is carried out using the pre-op 3D imagery O-Arm system. Arthrectomy.

A patient with Parkinson's disease is treated with thalamic stimulation : electrods are inserted into the brain and fed with a thalamic pacemaker implanted in the thorax. This neurosurgery is performed with the O-ARM Imaging System. This motorized intra-operative multi-dimensional surgical imaging platform provides real-time high resolution fluoroscopy and 3D CT scan imaging, and allows high precision and safety surgical procedures. Here, beginning of the surgical procedure. Pr Jean-Jacques More

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. Two student nurses chat.

Operating theatre in a cardiac surgery ward at Fann hospital (Dakar, Senegal).

Cardiology. Novacor artificial heart graft

Surgeons washing hands with soaps in bathroom sink at hospital

Reportage on the removal of a cerebral tumor (glioma) while awake at Nice Hospital, France. Awake surgery consists of waking the patient during the operation in order to precisely locate, using electrical stimulation, crucial areas for vital functions (language, motor function etc.), with the aim of preserving them during the ablation of the tumor. The patient is awake and the speech therapist carries out cognitive tests. The electrical stimulation on contact with the neuronal network disturbs these tests and leads to a failure in the requested tasks. This enables the surgeon to know if he is in a vital area.

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

Heart surgeons during a heart valve operation

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Saint George Clinic, Nice, France. Treating a torn cruciate ligament with ligament surgery using the Sambba technique. The operation, carried out under arthroscopy, consists of reconstructing the torn ligament with a transplant taken from the knee. The surgeon puts his surgical gloves on.

U.S. Army Col. Phillip Brown Jr., commander of Joint Task Force-Bravo, right, and U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Arturo Manzanedo, left, chief of staff of JTF-B, speak with Dr. Gerardo Napky, middle, chief of pediatric orthopedics at Hospital Escuela, while visiting the Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022 at Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 29, 2022. The U.S. Army and Air Force orthopedic team is integrated with the orthopedic staff at Hospital Escuela for four weeks as a part of the HEART 22, a U.S. Southern Command operation led by JTF-B meant to strengthen partnerships and build resiliency.

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

Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita, New Orleans, October 6, 2005 - A medical simulation set up in one of the 12 operating rooms available on the hospital ship USS Comfort, now docked in the city to provide medical care for people affected by Hurricane Katrina, depicts the quality of medical expertise available on the vessel. The care provided by many city hospitals was severely compromised by the storm, making this floating hospital a major asset for the city. Win Henderson / FEMA

Doctors caring for patient in emergency care unit of a hospital taking blood sample

A team of surgeons and medical professionals preparing for a surgical procedure in an operating room.

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. Preparation of care and treatment, syringe, injection.

Reportage in the maternity service of Métropole Savoie hospital in Chambéry, France. A planned cesarean delivery. A nurse takes the baby over to its mother.

Veterinarian with assistant at clinic

Brazzaville Hospital. NGO la Chaîne de l'Espoir. Cardiac surgery.

Reportage in the Osteoarticular Infections Referral Centre (CRIOA) at Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon hospital in Paris. Septic surgery, removing an internal fixation in the ankle following an infection. To avoid infection spreading, the operating theatre team wear scrub overalls that have to be taken off when leaving theatre.

Reportage at the Maussins-Nollet Clinic in Paris. Fitting a hip prosthesis in theatre. Dressing the surgeon.

Delivery. Midwife with a newborn baby. Maternity department, Cochin hospital, Paris, France.

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. Laparoscopic forceps.

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Medical instruments. Operating theatre. Hospital Fann. Sénégal. Dakar.

Report at the maternity hospital of the Abbeville hospital. Cesarean delivery of a woman pregnant with twins. Scheduled intervention. Presence in the operating room of obstetrician gynecologist, internal doctor, nurse, midwife.

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.

Operating theatre in a cardiac surgery ward at Fann hospital (Dakar, Senegal).

Anaesthesia. Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) by Photoselective Vaporization of the Prostate (PVP) using the Greenlight PV Laser System. Diaconesses hospital, Paris, France.

Doctors caring for patient in emergency care unit of a hospital taking blood sample

Medics providing operation

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.

Heart surgeons and operating room nurse during a heart valve operation

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