Surgical Procedures in Hospitals

Visuals of healthcare professionals in various surgical settings, including robotic surgery and intensive care, showcasing advanced medical practices.

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Léman hospital, Thonon, France. Operating theatre. Two nurses prepare the surgical instruments.

Surgeons in the 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.Care performed on an intubated patient on an artificial respirator and under dialysis. Ultrasound performed internally before the catether break by the resuscitator

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. Removing the robot at the end of the operation.

Photo essay at Rouen hospital in France. Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics surgery. Da Vinci® Robotic total hysterectomy.

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.

Emergency services of the Abbeville hospital, COVID area, care and examinations carried out by nurses, doctors and nursing assistants. The nurse reads the electrocardiogram.

Gastroenterologist performing a gastrointestinal fiberoptic endoscopy. A flexible fibre-optic endoscope is introduced through the mouth and navigates inside the digestive tract.

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Léman hospital, Thonon, France. Operating theatre. Two nurses prepare the surgical instruments.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Tim Soeken, an Ophthalmologist deployed in support of Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, picks up a surgical piece of equipment while performing a surgery on a patient on Sept. 1, 2022, at Unidad Nacional de Ofralmologia, Guatemala. 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).

Female surgeon operating on a patient's eye with another female surgeon standing near her

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.

Surgeon sutures the eyelid after plastic surgery operation

110308-N-7491B-039 SAN DIEGO (March 8, 2011) Surgical technician Arnie Bermudez, left, assists Cmdr. Alexander E. Stewart, a rhinologist, during a septoplasty and turb reduction on a patient in the Otolaryngology Department operating room at Naval Medical Center San Diego. The department has 70 staff members and treats more than 20,000 patients a year with medical conditions such as speech, audiology, sinus, vocal cord and swallowing problems.

Reportage in the ophthalmology service in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. In the operating theatre, treatment of a retinal detachment through vitrectomy. The doctor is helped by the intern. Injecting gas.

Reportage in the gynecology theatre block in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Laparoscopy removal of an ovarian cyst. Theatre nurse and anesthetist.

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 a ventilator

Prostatectomy performed by the telesurgery robot Da Vinci, which four articulated arms and camera are controlled at distance by a surgeon. Limoges hospital, 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 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.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. Removing the robot at the end of the operation.

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.

Female dental doctor wearing protective workwear working while standing in clinic during Covid-19

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).

Photo essay at Rouen hospital in France. Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics surgery. Da Vinci® Robotic total hysterectomy. The da Vinci System enables the doctor to perform a minimally invasive hysterectomy 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.

$Pain Evaluation and Treatment, Cimiez Hospital, Nice, France, multiple sclerosis patient with refractory neuropathic pain, requiring intrathecal pain killer treatment through an abdominal intrathecal pump filled with a 40ml dose of Ziconotide (Prialt) every fortnight, The Huber needle that will be used to fill the pump. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)$

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 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.

Photo essay at Lyon hospital. Department of urology. Surgical treatment of erectile dysfunction with a penile prosthesis. Operating room nurse.

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. Long tubes.

Surgical technologist putting line on the irrigation aspiration and doctor using microscope

Neuroradiologist with assistant in scrubs

doctor in scrubs and surgical mask scanning patient in hospital

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. At the end of the intervention, suture of the abdominals smalls incisions.

Dental clinic, dentist doctor preparing all the utensils before the operation

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. Removing the robot at the end of the operation.

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

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. Ultrasound performed internally before the catether break by the resuscitator

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

Photo essay at Rouen hospital in France. Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics surgery. Da Vinci® Robotic total hysterectomy. The da Vinci System enables the doctor to perform a minimally invasive hysterectomy 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.

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.

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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.

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Darren Thomas, from La Mesa, California, left, observes as Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Edward McGlynn, from Philadelphia, middle, and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class John Macatuno, from Dededo, Guam, right, take an x-ray of a Chuukese patient's arm 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 and stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships.

Surgeon washing hands before 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.

Reportage in the maternity service of Métropole Savoie hospital in Chambéry, France. A planned cesarean delivery. Surgeon and patient before the intervention.

Surgeons talking and preparing in operating room

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

High technology digital vascular angiography unit, medical imagery center of Poitiers University Hospital, France. This scanner, combining the two highly evolved biplane and flat detector technologies, generates high quality images for diagnostic purposes and optimised therapeutic procedures. Here, treatment of a giant intracranial aneurysm by placement of a coil.

Surgeon operating on patients hand, assisted by scrub nurse

Healthcare worker examining document in veterinary clinic

Stereotactic Neurosurgery operation, Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France, Treating Parkinsons disease through deep brain stimulation, by implanting electrodes in brain, modulating abnormal cerebral electrical activity, The room is equipped with a pre-op O-arm scanner and NeuroMate, a stereotactic robot. The robot enables surgeons to optimize and increase reliability of their operating technique, and the O-arm enables real time 3D images to be obtained to improve the precision, safety and efficiency of the operation. The start of the operation. The surgeon and his team prepare locations using the O-arm. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

Orthopedic surgery, a student nurse observes the progress of an operation outside the 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. Care performed on an intubated patient on an artificial respirator and under dialysis. Break of a catether by the resuscitator and an intern after an ultrasound.

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. Electric syringe adjustment

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.

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.

The da Vinci system translates the surgeon's hand gestures at the console into real-time motion with fully wristed instruments during the procedure with a higher range of motion than standard laparoscopic instruments. The da Vinci vision system also provides a 3 dimension high-definition and magnified view of the operating area. Surgeons can use one or several instruments at a time due to the various tool size.

Reportage in the ophthalmology service in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. In the operating theatre, treatment of a retinal detachment through vitrectomy. The doctor is helped by an intern.

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.Pause of a catheter by a nurse

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.Preparation by a nurse of the treatment to ensure sedation of intubated patients.

$Reportage in the Pain Evaluation and Treatment service in Cimiez Hospital, Nice, France. The patient suffers from multiple sclerosis causing refractory neuropathic pain, requiring intrathecal pain killer treatment. He has an abdominal intrathecal pump. The pump is refilled with a 40ml dose of Ziconotide (Prialt) every fortnight. The Huber needle that will be used to fill the pump.$

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.

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. A radio technician and radiologist.

Heart surgery

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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.

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.

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

Surgeon sutures the eyelid after plastic surgery operation

Doctors using defibrillator to resuscitate male heart

A team prepares a feeding tube for a premature baby.

Sampling of amniotic fluid. Sterile preparation of the ultrasound probe.

Reportage in the gynecology surgery service of the Chambéry Métropole Savoie Hospital, France. Conservative hysterectomy by vaginal laparoscopy in a 44-year old patient suffering from adenomyosis and uterine lymphoma.

Surgical technologist setting up back table of instruments prior to surgery

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines (Aug. 6, 2022) - Lt. Sydney Perles, from San Diego, monitors a patients vital signs during a surgery aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) 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.

Reportage in the maternity unit of Robert-Debré hospital in Paris, France. Amniocentesis on a woman who is 20 weeks pregnant. A sample of amniotic fluid is taken from the uterus. The fluid and fetal tissue contained in it will be examined allowing any potential chromosomal or enzyme abnormalities, responsible for hereditary illness and malformation, to be detected.

surgery, medicine and people concept - nurse assisting surgeon and helping with gloves and protective wear in operating room at hospital

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). Asepsis.

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

Reportage in outpatient surgery in the Léon Bérard Centre, Lyon, France. This cancer centre takes patients to theater standing up, an innovative way of welcoming patients to the operating theater. An active participant in their own operation, patients are taken to theater on foot. A patient is treated for dysphagia as a result of stomach cancer. A nurse puts some surgical slippers on him.

Surgeon, team and xray on monitor with meeting, point and emergency room with insight at hospital. Doctors, medical staff and people with scan for feedback, solution or face mask in theater at clinic

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.

Reportage in Robert Ballanger hospital's Intensive Care Unit in France. A doctor performs a fibroscopy.

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.

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

Nurses filling the treatment-follow up document of a patient in sterile unit. Department of Haematology and Immunology, Limoges hospital, France.

Birth of twins by cesarean section. The twins placed in the incubator are taken to the treatment room so that the pediatrician, the pediatric nurse, the nurse, the midwife carry out clinical examinations of the newborn before finding the dad for a skin-to-skin session.

Report at the maternity hospital in Abbeville, department of the Somme. Birth of twins by cesarean section. The twins placed in the incubator are taken to the treatment room so that the pediatrician, the pediatric nurse, the nurse, the midwife carry out clinical examinations of the newborn before finding the dad for a skin-to-skin session.

YOKOSUKA, Japan (Feb. 28, 2024) LCDR Heather Hernandez readies a ChloraPrep applicator for an abdominal skin prep during a simulated cesarean procedure. United States Naval Hospital Yokosukas Maternal Infant Unit (MIU) team demonstrated a Code Purple Obstetric (OB) Emergency Response to a group of students and faculty members from Kanagawa University of Human Services (KUHS). The team demonstrated a cesarean delivery and subsequent infant respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) for the visitors. Navy

Naples beginning of anti-covid vaccinations for the health sector at the Mostra D'Oltremare (Newfotosud Alessandro Garofalo) (Naples - 2021-01-08, napolipress). 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.

Photo essay at Rouen hospital in France. Department of urology. Da Vinci® Robotic prostate surgery. Vital signs monitor.

Portrait of medical woman in mask washing hands

two surgeons doing phlebectomy operation

surgeon performing an operation on the male patients belly

Surgeon putting on gloves

Doctors using defibrillator to resuscitate male heart

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

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.

Veterinarian and assistant in a surgery in clinic

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.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Edward McGlynn, from Philadelphia, right, and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class John Macatuno, from Dededo, Guam, left, examine an x-ray of a Chuukese patient's arm 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.

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