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Medical personnel conducting various surgeries. Blue scrubs and professional environments highlight advanced medical practices.

Surgeon, team and point at monitor with meeting, talk 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 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 the nursing staff, Preparation of equipment, ventilator, anti-decubitus mattress.

Caregiver. Recovery room. Bordeaux hospital. France.

A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and covers an entire region. Intervention by SMUR emergency workers following a stab wound. The victim is in serious condition that requires urgent transport to hospital. On arrival at the hospital, the patient is directly taken care of by the teams of the DAR Department of Anesthesia and Resuscitation of severe polytraumatized patients at Montpellier Hospital.

Female surgeon operating on a patient's eye

Reportage in Descartes University, Paris, France where Vizua 3D is based. Vizua provides real-time 3D visualisations for doctors using imagery from patients. Doctors can then print these visualisations in 3D. The Vizua team obtain images from photos taken of corpses in order to create 3D visuals.

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

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.

240226-N-FB730-1032 SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS (Feb. 26, 2024) Capt. Jamie Fitch, a general surgeon with Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) 11 from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune, and Lt. J. G. Ottis Brown, an intensive care unit nurse with Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF) Mike, record a patients vital signs in the trauma bay at Hospital Nacional Mario Catarino Rivas, San Pedro Sula, Honduras on Feb. 26, 2024. In collaboration with joint forces and the host nation, Expeditionary Medical Unit (EMU) 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

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. The medical team leaves theatre so as not to come into contact with any radiation during imagery acquisition.

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.

Dental clinic, detail of dentists with blue suits performing an implant, view from above of the operation

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.

Training of medical interns in the ECMO technique, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

Anaesthetist monitoring the intensity of the anaesthestic during an operation

Photo essay at the maternity of Rouen hospital. The anesthesiologist is preparing the epidural anesthesia.

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.

Doctor holding protective gloves while standing by assistant at office

Training of medical interns in the ECMO technique, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

U.S. Air Force Capt. Tyson Hazard, left, 60th Dental Squadron general dentist and Maj. David Welch, 60th MDG pediatric dentist, examine a childs teeth at Travis Air Force Base, California, Feb. 17, 2023. The David Grant USAF Medical Center dental clinic provided children with dental exams and cleanings for National Children's Dental Health Month.

Martin Army Community Hospital graduating resident Capt. Victoria Hall tries to stem bleeding during the Family Medicine Residency Experience (FMRx) cadaver lab, April 20.

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.

Snoring treatment by laser CO2, Foch hospital, Suresnes, France.

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

Reportage in the Vinci Clinic in Paris, France. Decontamination room.

Reportage in a dermatology practice in Geneva, Switzerland. The dermatologist removes a suspicious mole, helped by her assistant.

Medical students watching surgical procedure. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Limoges hospital, France.

Reportage in the Mozart plastic surgery clinic in Nice, France. FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) hair transplant on a patient who has already undergone two strip harvesting sessions which have left scars. FUE will avoid this. FUE involves harvesting individual follicular units using a hollow needle that is 0.9-1.2mm in diameter, and reimplanting them in the bald patch. Recovering the grafts, each small pile in the collector represents 100 grafts. 1,000 grafts will be harvested in total.

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

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. Cleaning and disinfection of care trolleys.

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.

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.

Surgeons performing 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 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.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A KSC employee dons the foot and leg covers of a "bunny suit," part of standard clean room apparel, before entering a clean room. The apparel is designed to cover the hair, clothing and shoes of employees to prevent particulate matter from contaminating the space flight hardware being stored or processed in the clean room and is one aspect of KSC's Foreign Object Debris (FOD) control program, an important safety initiative.

U.S. Army Capt. (Dr.) Eric Storey, a veterinarian from the 994th Medical Detachment, anesthetizes a feline veterinary patient before his team partners with a Cambodian veterinarian to share their surgical techniques during a veterinarian community service event in support of Pacific Partnership 2010 on June 25, 2010, in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in Cambodia conducting the fifth in a series of annual U.S. Pacific Fleet humanitarian and civic assistance endeavors to strengthen regional partnerships.

Integral Decathlon diving mask transformed into an artificial respirator for patients with Covid-19. Medical resuscitation service - Jacques Cartier Hospital - Massy.

happy female surgeon reading message at mobile phone

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.

Medical intensive care unit at Jacques Cartier Hospital in Massy. Nurse and nursing assistant replenish stocks in the department pharmacy (Furosemide, Heparin, Ceftriaxone, cephalosporin antibiotic) used for patients with Covid 19.

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 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.

Photo essay at the maternity of Rouen hospital. Labor ward. Epidural.

U.S. Army Capt. Leyland Furr (left), Intensive Care Unit nurse, Brooke Army Medical Center, and a Ghanaian military medical professional, monitor the vital signs of a patient at the 37th Military Hospital in Accra, Ghana, June 15, 2022. Hurley is part of a 19-person medical team from the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force working alongside Ghanaian medical professionals during MEDREX Ghana 22, from June 6-23. The teams work together treating patients from local communities in a variety of medical specialties, including orthopedics, general surgery and emergency room care. MEDREX allow military personnel from the United States and their African Partners to exchange best medical practices, procedures and techniques that build and strengthen treatment capabilities, resulting in lasting relationships between medical professionals.African Lion 22 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 participa

Reportage in the orthopaedic surgery unit in the Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon hospital in Paris. Placing a second hip prosthesis. Checking out using x-ray after the operation.

Healthcare worker wearing protective gloves in veterinary clinic

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Dentalman Clarice L. Casias follows orders from Lieutenant Commander Keith Beasley during a filling appointment on board the submarine tender USS HOLLAND (AS-32). Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Training of medical interns in the ECMO technique, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

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.

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Christina Crow, left, religious affairs for the Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, and Chaplain (Capt.) Ovidiu Pacurar, HEART 22 chaplain, assists at Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa, Honduras July 22, 2022. HEART 22 is a total force, joint team of guard, reserve, civilian, and active duty Army and Air Force medical and support members.

LITTLETON, Mass. - A medic with the Massachusetts National Guard takes a nasal swab that will be used to test for COVID-19 with a resident of the Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley, Littleton, Mass., April 3, 2020. The Massachusetts National Guard worked with the facilitys staff to administer COVID-19 tests to help prevent the spread of the virus. (Army National Guard

Transmission meeting at the hospital.

Surgeon washing hands before operation

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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.

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.

A team takes a blood sample from a newborn baby.

NORFOLK (Sept. 7, 2022) Cmdr. Joseph Fitspatrick, a surgeon assigned to an Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) from Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, performs emergency surgery and advanced trauma care on a mannequin during a realistic test-of-concept aboard the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship, USS Tortuga (LSD-46), Sept. 7, 2022. ERSS is designed to provide advanced medical capabilities at the closest point-of-injury, either afloat, undersea or ashore during combat or contingency operations in a distributed maritime environment.

Africa. Sotouboua hospital. Operating theater. Sterilization of medical equipment. Togo.

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.

Training of medical interns in the ECMO technique, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

Laparoscopic surgery, appendix operation, Germany, Europe

Surgical team at Hotel Dieu de France hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.

Dutch nurse instructs local nurses. A team of Dutch volunteers, consisting of plastic surgeons, anesthesists and nurses has operated for free over 100 people, mainly children, with cleft lips and burning wounds in hospitals in Dhaka and the provincial town of Munshiganj in a period of two weeks.

NMRTC Yokosukas Surgery Clinic receives a Surgeon General Power Award for creating and maintaining military-civilian partnerships.

Amidst the coronavirus pandemic that continues to rise in the country rapidly, Dr. Saeed-ur-Rehman, dressed in full PPE gear uses pulse oximeter to measure oxygen saturation level of a TB patient who recently contracted COVID-19, at a community health centre in Shiri Jinnah neighbourhood in Karachi, the main port city of Pakistan. (Photo by: Shehzad Noorani/Majority World/UIG)

Dentist showing mobile phone to nurse standing in corridor

Veterinary surgeons working on dog

Doctor and nurse of the emergency department of Abbeville hospital watches on You tube a tutorial on how to assemble a PCA pumps used in chronic pain in adults, mainly of cancerous origin and in palliative care.

AMARILLO, Texas. - U.S. Army Sgt. Hector Zepeda, right, a combat medic specialist, out of Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington, shadows Colby Neeley, left, a patient care technician, to learn the proper way to update a patients record at Northwest Healthcare System in Amarillo, Texas, Jan. 27, 2022. The U.S. Army medical team is deployed in support of continued Department of Defense COVID response operations to help communities in need. U.S. Northern Command, through U.S. Army North, remains committed to providing flexible Department of Defense support to the whole-of-government COVID response. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. James Alegria)

A surgeon gets ready to operate on a dog at a Pet Hospital in Condesa, Mexico City, Mexico

Health workers inoculate residents with the Russian-made Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, at the Makati Coliseum in Metropolitan Manila. The Philippines received its first 15,000 doses of Sputnik V, developed by Russia Gamaleya Institute, and were distributed in four cities in the capital region for a simultaneous vaccination program. Manila, Philippines.

Medical resuscitation service at the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy. In-room radio for an artificial respiration patient with Covid 19.

Training of medical interns in the ECMO technique, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Steve Mackin and US Air Force Captain Roy Dileo tape a patients head protection device at at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas's, Wilford Hall Medical Center. This image was used in the April 1996 issue of AIRMAN Magazine. Base: Lackland Air Force Base State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Nurse with respirator in operating theatre, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, Europe

The SMUR emergency service intervenes throughout the region 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Emergency Physician Michel Maillé and his team are called to the scene of an exchange of gunfire. A young man was shot and seriously injured in the leg. His vital prognosis is engaged. After his arrival in the emergency room, the young man is taken care of by the DAR teams. Department of Anesthesia Resuscitation and Critical Care of polytrauma patients.

Partial removal of a liver from a living donor by laparoscopy for a transplantation. Here, departure graft for transplantation in insulated container. Department of Surgery of Pr Olivier Soubrane. St Antoine hospital, Paris.

Surgical Technician

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 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.

Anefo photo collection. Minister Deetman (L) Hart Transplant Center Rotterdam; director Barendrecht. 11 February 1987. Rotterdam, South Holland

HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Sept. 1, 2022) - U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) pose for a photo with medical professionals from the National Referral Hospital in Honiara during a training aboard Mercy in support of 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.

Tam Duc Cardiology Hospital. Vietnamese child suffering from heart diseases. Intensive care unit. Ho Chi Minh city. Vietnam.

A team of Soldiers and civilians from Bassett Army Community Hospital emergency department put their training into action December 1 when an active duty Soldier walked into the waiting room in cardiac distress. The team on shift triaged, diagnosed, stabilized, and had the patient out the door to a higher-level of care well under the standard of time to treat a heart attack. From left to right: Capt. Mara Zedick, registered nurse; Spc. Jimmy Hearne, medic; Spc. Ashliey Walker, medic; Kelsey Meyer, registered nurse; Linda Meyers, doctor; and Sgt. Williams Wayne, paramedic. Not in the photo, Spc. Grant Mayer, radiology tech.

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