Alt text: “Measure zero times, cut zero times.” --carpenter who has achieved enlightenment and realized the wood is fine where it is
Alt text: “Measure zero times, cut zero times.” --carpenter who has achieved enlightenment and realized the wood is fine where it is
I guess I never thought about it before but I guess surgeons would have to take measurements when they’re doing surgery. Do they have a measuring tape of some kind of callipers during surgery?
Depends on what the surgery is.
If you’re doing a standard surgery on an organ, for example an appendectomy, you just start by taking images of the organs, then if everything is where it normally is, they just use landmarks like slightly left of the bellybutton.
If you’re doing surgery on some broken bones, you might have to make more measurements to ensure things are put back where they should be.
A lot of times, for really important surgeries, they’ll make a full 3d model and have a template created that you place over the surgical area to ensure you get everything exactly where it should go.
I’m not sure they measure things that much? Isn’t it cut from this thing to that thing and the length isn’t important. Then if two cut bits are going together then it’s fairly malleable stuff, plus it organically repairs. At least that’s my guess, in case a surgeon isn’t able to reply.
Yeah honestly I don’t know enough about surgery to even speculate. What I know is seeing shit on tv where they’re like “nurse, scalpel” n shit and that’s where my understanding begins and ends haha