Nice sewing

[George K]

For reference, a "10-0" suture has a diameter of 0.02 mm.

[taiwan_girl]

Definitely need a steady hand!!

[Axtremus]

Impressive!

@George-K @bachophile if you don't mind me asking, approximately what percentage of surgeons you know can pull of sutures at this level?

[George K]

@Axtremus said in Nice sewing:

Impressive!

@George-K @bachophile if you don't mind me asking, approximately what percentage of surgeons you know can pull of sutures at this level?

Every opthamologist.

Heart surgeons I worked with would use 7-0 or occasionally 8-0 sutures, but they didn't work through a microscope like the eye guys. They tend to wear Loupes. Not sure what the magnification on the Loupes was.

However, for the eye guys, the use a binocular microscope, allowing good 3-d visualization and the cornea fills their entire field of vision.

[Jolly]

The wife looked at that one and her comment was "routine". Her doc was a retinal specialist...A little slow in OR, but he did real pretty work.

[Jolly]

BTW, most of the eye docs she worked with used the binocular scope whenever possible. Loupes only when they had to.