Surgical Procedures in Progress

Intense operating room scenes featuring surgical teams in action during various procedures, showcasing teamwork, medical attire, and advanced technology.

Female assistant helping doctor to get dressed before operation in surgery.

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Léman hospital, Thonon, France. Operating theatre. A nurse helps a surgeon during an operation on a patient with pins.

Orthopedic operating theatre, Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France, Medullary liberation and arthrodesis, patient suffering from lumbar stenosis caused by arthritis, operation consists of freeing boney elements from the vertebral canal and consolidating the spine with an arthrodesis, carried out using the pre-op 3D imagery O-Arm system. The next stage in freeing the vertebral canal. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Sept. 1, 2022) - Lt. Cmdr. Margo Smith, from San Diego, performs 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. 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.

Surgeons at work in veterinary operating theater,London, UK

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

Surgery

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

Reportage in the gynecology theatre block in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Laparoscopy removal of a fibroma. The end of the operation, exsufflation, the surgeon presses to empty the CO2 that was insufflated into the patients stomach at the start of the operation.

110427-N-NY820-294PACIFIC OCEAN (April 27, 2011) Capt. Beth Jaklic, left, and Cmdr. Eric Gessler perform an open appendectomy on Electrician's Mate 3rd Class Mikhail Grigoryev aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20). Grigoryev was airlifted from the guided-missile frigate USS Gary (FFG 51) for the surgery. Comfort is the primary platform for Continuing Promise 2011, a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America. U.S. Navy

Caesarean section. Maternity department, Cochin hospital, Paris, France.

Operating room nurse send surgical equipment for surgeon doctor with Medical Team Performing Surgical Operation in Operating Room OR. Medical health care Surgery concept.

Close-up of a surgeon's hands stitching a patient's skin incision.

Gynecology surgery, Chambéry Métropole Savoie Hospital, France, Conservative hysterectomy by vaginal laparoscopy in a 44-year old patient suffering from adenomyosis and uterine lymphoma. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

Photo essay at the department of orthopedic surgery at Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon hospital, in Paris. Total knee replacement surgery.

Surgeons during a surgery

Reportage in the Mozart plastic surgery clinic in Nice, France. Face lift. Detaching the skin on the right-hand side.

An assistant gets a pair of forceps for the doctor as a surgical team corrects a service member's deviated septum in a Fleet Hospital Five operating room during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Reportage in the gynecology theatre block in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Laparoscopy removal of a fibroma using a 3D camera. The surgeon and operating assistant wear 3D glasses giving a high quality result on the screen.

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

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.

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

Cataract surgery femtosecond laser, Here, the second stage of the intervention, installation of the intraocular implant, Bordeaux hospital, France.

221130-N-LP924-1111 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Nov. 30, 2022) Lt. Cmdr. Andrew Friski, from Lexington, Virginia, assists a hysterectomy on a Dominican Republic native aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), Nov. 30, 2022. Comfort is deployed to U.S. 4th Fleet in support of Continuing Promise 2022, a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Surgeons at work in operating room

Doctors, group and scalpel in theater with medical surgery for healthcare, safety and operation in hospital. Surgeon, people and tools with specialist for emergency procedure or service in clinic

Cataract surgery femtosecond laser, Here, the second stage of the intervention, installation of the intraocular implant, Bordeaux hospital, France.

Veterinarians doing patient surgery in hospital

$Reportage in St Grégoire Hospital group in Rennes, France. Shoulder surgery following a fracture of the humerus. Setting a plate.$

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.

Gynecology surgery, Chambéry Métropole Savoie Hospital, France, Conservative hysterectomy by vaginal laparoscopy in a 44-year old patient suffering from adenomyosis and uterine lymphoma. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

Report at Nice University Hospital, Pasteur Hospital, for a radical prostatectomy with lymph node dissection on a 66-year-old patient suffering from high-risk prostate cancer according to the D'Amico classification. FRANCE

Surgeons performing an operation

Doctors performing operation

Treatment of abdominopelvic organs affection with coeliosurgery. Department of gastroenterological surgery, Limoges hospital, France.

Surgical Team Working In Operating Theatre

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.

Radiofrequency ablation of a liver tumor.

a real surgical operation in a green room

Report from the Gynecological Surgery Department of Antoine-Béclère Hospital (92). Myomectomy (surgical removal of a uterine fibroid) by laparotomy.

Photo essay at the department of orthopedic surgery at Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon hospital, in Paris. Total knee replacement surgery.

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines (Aug. 13, 2022) - Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22) medical professionals perform a hernia repair on a patient aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during PP22. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.

Prof M Samii is a man of medical superlatives, an international authority on neurosurgery, he has taken part in more than 20.000 operations. In July 2000, with the inauguration of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI) in a unique building in the shape of a brain Madjid Samii

Orthopedic surgery operating room in a hospital.

Reportage in the orthopaedic surgery unit in the Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon hospital in Paris. Placing a second hip prosthesis.

Partial removal of a liver from a living donor by laparoscopy for a transplantation. Department of Surgery of Pr Olivier Soubrane. St Antoine hospital, Paris.

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.

Events in family, society, leisure, hobby, craft. Medicine. Agriculture, education and landscapes in the years 1965 to 1971. Iserlohn. Outpatient surgery in chiurgic practice, DEU

Doctors, hospital bed and surgeon team for emergency, healthcare or medical procedure. Theatre group start collaboration, healing or surgery and operation with support, risk and scrubs in ICU

Report at Nice University Hospital, Pasteur Hospital, for a radical prostatectomy with lymph node dissection on a 66-year-old patient suffering from high-risk prostate cancer according to the D'Amico classification. Here, laparoscopy. 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 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 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.

1970s MEDICAL SURGERY DOCTORS OPERATING

Female dentists in blue scrubs performing a complicated operation on a female patient, sucking blood

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.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Braden Beavers, from Cleveland, Tennessee, observes a tympanoplasty surgery on a local residents right ear. onboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) while anchored in Weno, Chuuk, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 15, 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.

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.

The urology ward of the Elisabeth Hospital in Iserlohn rightly enjoys a good reputation. Numerous patients in the district are sent here for treatment by their general practitioners. The photo shows a urological operation, the removal of a carcinogenic prostate, DEU, Germany, Europe

Reportage in the maternity service of Métropole Savoie hospital in Chambéry, France. A planned cesarean delivery.

Tuberculosis and HIV in Moldova, lung surgery, ward of the Chiril Draganiuc hospital, Chișinau, Moldova, Europe

Cardiac surgery in a hybrid operating room, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin or German cardiac center, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Reportage in the operating theatre with the orthopedic surgery teams of Léman hospitals in Thonon, France. Acromioplasty and tenodesis of the biceps.

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

Reportage in Fann hospital, Dakar, Senegal. Operating theatre.

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

Arthroscopy on a limb horse France

Surgeons performing heart transplant surgery in a hospital operating theatre. The surgeon has opened the patients chest with protractors and is using a pair of forceps.

Surgery

U.S. Navy and Royal Navy Sailors perform a biopsy on a local Micronesian patient aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) anchored off Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 13, 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.

Operating room nurse prepare surgical equipment for surgeon doctor with Medical Team Performing Surgical Operation in Operating Room OR. Medical health care Surgery concept.

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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

Report from the Gynecological Surgery Department of Antoine-Béclère Hospital (92). Myomectomy (surgical removal of a uterine fibroid) by laparotomy.

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

Reportage on a kidney transplant in the urology service of Nice Hospital, France. The kidney is taken from a living related donor, the recipients wife. Extracting the donor's kidney.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. A nurse and the surgeon position the robot"s mechanical arm.

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Darren Thomas, from La Mesa, California, rubs iodine onto a 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.

Prof M Samii is a man of medical superlatives, an international authority on neurosurgery, he has taken part in more than 20.000 operations. In July 2000, with the inauguration of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI) in a unique building in the shape of a brain Madjid Samii

Team of doctors in an operating room. Hospital and operating room, concept of surgery

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

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. At the end of the operation the abdomen is deflated.

Hip replacement, operation

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

A surgeon and their team performing a surgical procedure on a patient's chest.

A Guatemalan Ophthalmologist assigned to Unidad Nacional de Ofralmologia, UNO, Guatemala, checks his equipment while performing eye surgery on a patient, Sept. 1, 2022, at UNO. 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).

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. A nurse and the surgeon position the robots mechanical arm.

Reportage in the orthopaedic surgery unit in the Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon hospital in Paris. Placing a second hip prosthesis.

110511-N-CW427-002SAN DIEGO (May 11, 2011) Cmdr. Gordon Wisbach, director of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at Naval Medical Center San Diego, prepares to insert an endoscope through a patientÕs belly button before performing a natural orifice endoscopic surgery (NOTES). NOTES is a surgical technique using an endoscope to perform abdominal operations through a body's natural orifice such as the nose or mouth. NMCSD is the first DoD military treatment facility to perform this type of surgery.

Surgeons operating on patient in OR.

Laser surgery for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Hand surgery.

Reportage on a kidney transplant in the urology service of Nice Hospital, France. The kidney is taken from a living related donor, the recipients wife. Analysis and preparation of the donated organ that has just been removed.

Hospital Corpsman Sean Zelonis, a surgical technologist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) directs co-workers in organizing sterilized equipment in the surgery room. Zelonis, along with other surgical technologists at WRNMMC recognized for their dedicated efforts and teamwork during National Surgical Technologists Week, Sept. 18-24. (Photo by Alpha Kamara, Office of Command Communications)

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

Surgical team with patient

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

An arthroscopy of the hip. Femoroplasty on a sportspersons hip. The drill that will plane the bone excrescence responsible for the crushing of the cartilage and labrum can be seen on the screen. This crushing is known as hip impingement.

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. Placing screws.

HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Sept. 1, 2022) - Cmdr. Jesse Bandle, from San Diego, center, performs surgery with doctors from the Japan Self-Defense Force and Solomon Islands National Referral Hospital 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. 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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