Why do some surgeries take so long (like upwards of 24 hours)? What exactly are they doing?
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Reconstructive plastic surgery can include finding and isolating many blood vessels both on the donor site and the receiving site, and this is quite time consuming.
In neurosurgery it is imperial that there are no bleeding before closing the cranium, and you want to stop bleeding without harming the brain.
Surgery after major trauma can take a long time since you have to find all the damage to different parts of the body, and try to repair it.
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