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Microsurgery: Sewing Blood Vessels and Nerves Back Together


A man came into the emergency ward at one o'clock. His thumb came in an
hour later. The surgeon's job: get them back together.

The successful re-attaching of fingers to hand requires long hours of
painstaking work in microsurgery. In the operating room , the surgeon
doesn't stand, but sits in a chair that supports her body. Her arm is
cradled by a pillow. Scalpels are present as are other standard surgical
tools, but the suture threads are almost invisible, the needle thinner
than a human hair. And all the surgical activity revolves around the
most important instument, the microscope.

The surgeon will spend the next few hours looking through the microscope
at broken blood vessels and nerves and sewing them back together again.
The needles are so thin that they have to be held with needlenosed
jeweller's forceps and will sew together nerves that are as wide as the
thickness of a penny. To make such a stitch, the surgeon's hands will
move no more than the width of the folded side of a piece of paper s... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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