MODEL RELEASED. Post-operative hospital care. Nurses caring for a teenage boy who is recovering from surgery to the tendons in his legs. They have removed the bandages and support cast from his right leg, and they are preparing to clean his surgical wounds (cleaning fluids at left) before replacing the cast and bandages. The patient is breathing an anaesthetic (in green bag) through a mask to relieve the pain during this procedure. Photographed in the Orthopaedic Surgery Nursing Ward at the Robert Debre Hospital, Paris, France.