Jeff just want / need to ask..... do they actually have that structure already built or is it a modular sort of erector set of parts and pieces prearranged or do they have a medical engineering group of techs fabricating that near or in the operating room as the doctors ask for and measure etc ... ??? From Gods hand.
That is amazing to actually see the complexity in the scans and x-rays.
Grateful your doing better my friend.
Stay safe !!
Well, they took a real good look with xrays, CT Scans, and MRIs and then designed what I would nee. They have the various titanium parts but had to cut them to length and use the right sizes=, which they did before hand and had the parts and pieces there.
Then after they took my entire sacrum out (which was filled with cancer) and my pelvic ring did not exist, they did the actual lifting, screiwing, emplacement, tightening and then treatment with “bone dust” so new bone would grow in around it and encase it.
Dr. Rhinse and his assistancts were lifting me up there on the table and doing it, and he had even calculated a particular angle my new pelvic ring needed to be canted at to best allow for support and functioning. All occurring as I laid there completely opened up stem to stern.
They had nicked a large artery early on and I ended up going through 46 units of blood in that one operation (like 4-5 times your entire supply), A anistesiologists literally spent hours manually pumping the blood through me until they could get to that artery and repair it.
Amazing stuff. Very humbling stuff.