Surgical Procedures and Techniques

Images of various surgical procedures involving medical professionals in scrubs and surgical gear, focused on different specializations like ophthalmology, urology, and orthopedics.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. Stitches at the end of the operation.
Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. Stitches at the end of the operation.
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Training of medical interns in the ECMO technique, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.
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Vintage Photograph. Surgical team performing operation in sterile hospital environment.
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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.
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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, the position of the electrods in patient's brain is check
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Three confident surgeons in the operating room
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Back, surgery, x ray and a team of doctors in the hospital for an operation or procedure to remove a tumor. Healthcare, medical planning and a surgeon looking at a screen with a medicine professional
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Hysterectomy in an operating room of a hospital with a robot surgeon.
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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.Caring for children by midwives after delivery and presentation to the mother.
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Anaesthesist at work during mitral valve replacement surgery, an open heart surgery requiring a cardiopulmonary bypass. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Limoges hospital, France.
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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.
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Knee replacement, artifical knee joint, operation
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Messina, the anti-covid vaccines have officially started inside the two hubs set up at the former Fiera of Messina. At full capacity, the center could allow up to 3,000 inoculations per day. ( 2021-03-10, Francesco Algeri). The photo can be used in compliance with the context in which it was taken, and without the defamatory intent of the decorum of the people represented.
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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 the families of patients with Covid-19. Medical resuscitation service - Jacques Cartier Hospital - Massy .
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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.
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Woman, surgeon and group with gloves, prepare and ready for job in operating room at hospital. People, doctors and scrubs with ppe, gear or medical team with emergency services at trauma clinic
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Photo essay at Lyon hospital. Department of urology. Surgical treatment of erectile dysfunction with a penile prosthesis.
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1960s SURGEON WITH ASSISTING DOCTORS AND NURSES PERFORMING OPEN HEART SURGERY
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Pediatric resuscitation simulation workshop at the Nimes Faculty of Medicine.
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Veterinary clinic with a cat, veterinarian working on delicate mouth and teeth operation with cap and headlamp
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Heart surgeon Prof. Richard Frey during heart surgery in the operating room, Bundeswehr Central Hospital Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe
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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. Treating a patient suffering from a left atrial flutter. The team in the control room during the ablation.
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Photo essay at Rouen hospital in France. Department of obstetrics. Transport in observation ward.
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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).
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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.
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Premature newborn baby placed under respiratory assistance. Neonatalogy department, Robert Debré hospital, Paris, France.
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Report from the Gynecological Surgery Department of Antoine-Béclère Hospital (92). In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Biology laboratory.
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Surgeon, team and walking in hospital with tablet for medical research, discussion or operation. Healthcare, people or conversation in clinic with tech for collaboration, procedure or surgery update.
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Intensive care unit in an African hospital. Dakar. Senegal. (Dakar, Sénégal)
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Veterinarian in a surgery
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Surgeons using digital tablet in hospital hallway
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Nurse taking care of a newborn baby in an incubator. Maternity department, Cochin hospital, Paris, France.
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Medical professionals at the L'Hôpital Militaire de Bizerte, Bizerte, Tunisia, set up a non-radioactive computerized tomography scan to demonstrate their readiness and high-quality care of a notional victim with a fractured arm, shrapnel to the face and labored breathing as part of African Lion 22, June 23, 2022. African Lion 2022 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, joint, annual exercise hosted by Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia, June 6 - 30. More than 7,500 participants from 28 nations and NATO train together with a focus on enhancing readiness for U.S. and partner nation forces. AL22 is a joint all-domain, multi-component, and multinational exercise, employing a full array of mission capabilities with the goal of strengthening interoperability among participants and setting the theater for strategic access.
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Medical resuscitation service at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. In-room radio for an artificial respiration patient with Covid 19.
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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. Discussion between doctor and nurses on treatment protocol for a patient.
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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.
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Africa. Sotouboua hospital. Operating theater. Togo.
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Young doctor wearing a mask works on the computer in her dental office
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Heart surgery monitoring (catheterism)
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Contact us before promotional use. Photo essay at the Teddy Bear Hospital of Limoges in France. The Teddy Bear Hospital is a public health project for 3-6 year old children. The aim is to take childrens fear of physicians and hospitals. Besides it is also a good opportunity for medical students to work with children. In France this program is organized by the student association ANEMF.
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Reportage in a sterilisation unit in Thonon-les-Bains hospital, France. All the hospital services send their equipment here to be sterilised. Each instrument has a tracking form which allows each stage of sterilisation to be retraced. The conditions of the instruments is checked before packaging.
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Contact us before promotional use. Photo essay at the Teddy Bear Hospital of Limoges in France. The Teddy Bear Hospital is a public health project for 3-6 year old children. The aim is to take childrens fear of physicians and hospitals. Besides it is also a good opportunity for medical students to work with children. In France this program is organized by the student association ANEMF.
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GIZO, Solomon Islands (Sept. 1, 2022) Lt. Edgar Zamora, from Greensboro, North Carolina, right, and Eddie Sui, a Solomon Islands general medical officer, middle, intubate 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.
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Cardiology department of Saint-Philibert hospital (GHICL) in Lille, France. Electrophysiology operating theatre. Radiofrequency ablation for an irregular heart beat (tachycardia), supervised through radiography.
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060830-N-9076B-188. Base: Usns Mercy (T-AH 19)
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Africa. Sotouboua hospital. Operating theater. Togo.
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Portrait of a doctor during the surgery
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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, needle, respirator installation.
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Veterinarians preparing for surgery at clinic
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Reportage in the gynecology theatre block in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Laparoscopy removal of an ovarian cyst. On the screen: dissecting the cyst.
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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.
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Televising An Operation -- The Television of the Appendicitis operation in progress. On the left Can be seen the C.P.S. Emitron Camera and on the right the "Scilytio" light with the mirror set at an angle of 45 degrees to reflect the operation into the camera. Under the camera can be seen a handle with which the surgeon can rotate the whole unit though 60 degrees. July 11, 1951.
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Electrophysiological cardiac catheterization, EPU, for cardiac arrhythmia, in a hospital in Germany, Europe
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Surgeons operating MR#20E
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Actors in stage play "Tiger Country" working in an operation theatre environment, Hampstead Theatre, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
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High angle view of a group of surgeons performing an operation in an operating room
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Major (MAJ) Stacy Robinson, a dentist from the 366th Aeromedical Dental Squadron (ADS) performs a root canal on Bono, a military working dog while MAJ Charles McDonald, a nurse from the 60th Medical Group (MG), checks the IV flow, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM
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Africa. Sotouboua hospital. Operating theater. Togo.
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Orthopedic Trauma Shift - UC Davis
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During surgery, hospital and health center, Matamba-Solo, Kawongo district, Bandundu Province, Congo-Brazzaville, Africa
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Airmen of the 102nd Medical Group, Otis ANGB, Mass., joined with Soldiers, Sailors and members of the U.S. Public Health Service to participate in Innovative Readiness Training in Georgia and Alabama in August 2022. The annual event connects the need for required, real-world training with resources provided by the civilian community to bring care to residents in need.
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Graphic highlighting surgical procedures conducted aboard Military Sealift Command Hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) in Puerto Princesa, Philippines 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.