I know that the exception is those big, main vessels when doing open heart surgery or something like that, but I’m just talking in general smaller vessels.
Like in the nose for example. Too many nosebleeds? Cauterize the vessel! If I understand correctly, after cauterization, blood can no longer flow through that vessel, so it must somehow find another way. But each vessel should exist for a reason. How does cauterizing one have no side effect?
Maybe you chase nosebleeds and cauterize a vessel each year for 50 years. Is there an upper limit to how many blood vessels can be cauterized in a region?
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I think a lot of people think about the circulatory system like a racetrack with one possible circuit around the body. But it’s much more accurate to think about it like a highway system that connects to local roads. So what happens when you exit the highway and find out that the road you need is closed? You just take a different road and bypass the closed section. Then you can take a different exit onto the next highway that you need
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