why does amputation require surgery instead of hacking the hand off and fixing from there?

Question

There’s not really a not dense way to ask this so apologies for the bluntness. When someone has a limb amputated, it’s a long, arduous surgery. But when people are in accidents and lose a limb and live, I’m assuming they have some kind of surgery to fix the damaged tissue? Is the intentional amputation safer? Quicker? More cost effective?

Thanks in advance!

In: Biology

Answer 1

If someone loses a limb in an accident, they then have a long arduous surgery to reassemble the stump.