When surgeons perform a “36 hour operation” what exactly are they doing?

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What exactly are they doing the entirety of those hours? Are they literally just cutting and stitching and suctioning the entire time? Do they have breaks?

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Those were some excellent answers. Makes me wonder what happened behind the scenes when my 2 hr surgery turned into 8.

Edit: since this has gained numerous comments… I had a hysterectomy and I was just supposed to lose the uterus but when they went in it turns out that I had torsion on an ovary and necrosis of some thing and the endometriosis was one of the worst they’d ever seen so they spent the entire time cleaning me out except for what was covering my intestines.

Edit edit: some of these answers have me rolling.

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