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 operating theatre with the orthopedic surgery teams of Léman hospitals in Thonon, France. Removal of the external fixations of the tibia.

Close-up of veterinarian in a surgery holding needle and scissors

Surgical team

Doctors wearing face mask operating surgery with endoscopy equipment wile standing at operating room

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 anesthetist wakes the patient.

Team of surgeons and nurses performing surgery on patient in operating room

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

Orthopedic surgery, Saint George Clinic, Nice, France, Treating a torn cruciate ligament using the Sambba technique, carried out under arthroscopy, reconstructing the torn ligament with a transplant taken from the knee. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

Medical team during operation, pulling varicose veins, vascular surgery, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

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

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Braden Beavers, from Cleveland, Tennessee, hands forceps to a lead surgeon during a tympanoplasty mastoidectomy surgery aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) while anchored off of Weno, Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 18, 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.

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

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 second part of the operation: implanting and connecting the stimulator to the implanted electrodes. Incision on the side of the skull for the passage of the connector wires. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

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.

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 group of doctors treating a patient on board of the world s only airborne ophthalmic surgical & training facility, The ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital s plane recently landed at Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport, Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

A surgical team made up of U.S. Air Force reservists from the 349th Medical Squadron and a Surinamese physician, wraps a patients leg after surgery at Paramaribos Academic Hospital in Suriname, Feb. 21, 2024. Patients needs were aligned with the specialties of USAF medical staff working hand-in-hand with host nation physicians and technicians to ensure continuity of care following all medical procedures. Air Force

Surgical Team Working In Operating Theatre

220623-N-AU520-2021TUY HOA, VIETNAM (June 23, 2022) - Cmdr. Tim Kim (left), an ophthalmologist aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), and Huynh Nguyen Ngoc Huyen (right), a Vietnamese ophthalmologist, perform eyelid reduction surgery on a Vietnamese patient at the Phu Yen Ophthalmology 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.

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

Headlight, healthcare and doctors in a hospital for surgery together, working in theater to save a life. Medical, teamwork and a surgeon in the operating room of a clinic for an operation closeup

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. Transplanting the kidney in the recipient.

Surgeons operating on patient in OR.

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

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

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.

Surgeon performing cochlear implant surgery, an operation involving the implantation of a small electronic device used to provide a sense of sound to a deaf person, Limoges hospital, France.

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

Oral surgeons operate on a patient aboard the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61). Country: Unknown

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

Doctors operating

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.

Reportage in St Grégoire Hospital group in Rennes, France. Shoulder arthroscopy. Repairing the subscapularis tendon with thread set with surgical anchors.

surgical instruments on a table in a real operating room

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

Medics providing operation

Operation room, surgery

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

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.

Esthetic surgery. The lipostructure or lipofilling is an esthetic surgery technics where the patient's own fat cells are taken from parts of its body where its is found in excess, and reinjected into other areas. It can be used after a lifting and along with a liposuccion for wrinkle correction or filling in contour in the face.

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.

Vintage Photograph. Operating room during surgery at Charity Hospital of Louisiana.

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

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.

Doctors team with endoscope equipment operating shoulder arthroscopic surgery in operation room during COVID-19

Operating room in pediatric surgery on a child.

Surgical treatment of a bladder cancer by cystectomy, Bladder reconstruction by making a neo-bladder formed with a segment of intestine, Diaconesses hospital, Paris, France.

PUERTO BARRIOS, Guatemala (Oct. 30, 2022) Lt. Cmdr. James McLean, left, and Cmdr. Michael Eliason, perform a rhinoscopy aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), Oct. 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.

Photo essay at Rouen hospital in France. Department of pediatric surgery.

Surgeons operating.

Photo essay at Lyon hospital. Department of urology. Operating room.

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.

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.

The Heart Institute offer high-quality care to Vietnamese patients suffering from heart diseases. Senegalese medical team trained to practice cardiac surgery.

Anaesthetising an obese female patient prior to Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy, Limoges hospital.

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.

Pediatric resuscitation simulation workshop at the Nimes Faculty of Medicine.

Doctors perform surgery aboard the hospital ship USNS MERCY (T-AH-19) which is in the region in support of Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown

Reportage in the gynecology operating theatre in Santa Maria Clinic in Nice, France. Endo-uterine resection of fibroids by hysteroscopy.

U.S. Air Force reservist Master Sgt. Alyssa Yarbrough, surgical technician from the 349th Medical Squadron reaches for an instrument during surgery at Paramaribos Academic Hospital in Suriname, Feb. 21, 2024. Forty-two U.S. Air Force active duty and reserve Airmen traveled to Suriname in support of this years Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance mission, serving in health engagements, exchanging best practices and developing stronger relationships with host nation partners in medicine. Air Force

Laying a bandage after hand surgery.

Surgical laparoscopy and hysteroscopy exploration here, treatment of endometriosis, Limoges hospital, France.

Orthopedic surgery for scoliosis on a spine.

Pediatric resuscitation simulation workshop at the Nimes Faculty of Medicine.

Hip replacement, operation

RAM veterinarians

Various photos from the field of medicine, here 18.7.1997 in Iserlohn, DEU, Germany, Europe

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

Photo essay at Rouen hospital, France. Plastic surgery. Skin grafting on the thorax of a man, the transplant is taken from the thigh of the patient.

Maj. Richard Peterson, 379th Expeditionary Medical Group general surgeon, performs a diagnostic laparoscopy while Senior Airman Trey Garner, 379th EMDG respiratory technician, assists at a non-disclosed Southwest Asia location April 24, 2010.

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.

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.

Photo essay. Chatellerault Hospital (Camille Guérin Hospital) in the French department of Vienne. Laparoscopic surgery. Gastric ring.

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, setting up the trocards and testing the camera. FRANCE.

A nurse puts on her gloves in the operating room of a hospital.

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

Emergency, hands or surgeons cutting in surgery or procedure or healthcare operation in hospital. Gloves closeup, medical tools or team of doctors helping in operating room with cotton or knife

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

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

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 patient is ready for beginning of the surgical proced

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. Surgical instruments.

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

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.The doctor sutures the incision, with threads.

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

Surgical operation.

Three Surgeons Operating On A Patient

Africa. Sotouboua hospital. Operating theater. Togo.

Oral surgeons operate on a patient aboard the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61). Country: Unknown

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

Dental clinic, dentist doctor and the assistant performing an oral operation in the dark

U.S. Air Force Maj. Tim Soeken, right, an Ophthalmologist deployed in support of Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, works alongside a Guatemalan Ophthalmologist assigned to Unidad Nacional de Ofralmologia, UNO, Guatemala, on a patient on 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®. Removing the robot at the end of the operation.

U.S. Air Force Col. Matthew Caldwell, right, an Ophthalmologist assigned to 59th Medical Wing, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, deployed in support of Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, (HEART 22), speaks to a local Guatemalan ophthalmologist during an eye surgery on a young Guatemalan child at Unidad Nacional de Oftalmología, Guatemala, on Sept. 1, 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).

U.S. Air Force Maj. Tim Soeken, left, an Ophthalmologist deployed in support of Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, and a Guatemalan Ophthalmologist assigned to Unidad Nacional de Ofralmologia, UNO, Guatemala, smile at the camera on Sept. 1, 2022, prior to conducting eye surgery 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 the stereotactic neurosurgery operating theatre in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Treating Parkinsons disease through deep brain stimulation. This technique consists of implanting electrodes in the brain, which modulate abnormal cerebral electrical activity. The second part of the operation: implanting and connecting the stimulator to the implanted electrodes. Incision on the side of the skull for the passage of the connector wires.

Reportage in the Mozart plastic surgery clinic in Nice, France. Face lift. Stitching.

England,London,Science Museum,Exhibit of a 1980's Open Heart Operation

Professional male surgeon starting operation on thumb of feet in hospital

Esthetic surgery. The lipostructure or lipofilling is an esthetic surgery technics where the patient's own fat cells are taken from parts of its body where its is found in excess, and reinjected into other areas. It can be used after a lifting and along with a liposuccion for wrinkle correction or filling in contour in the face.

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

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