The surgeon also will try to avoid damaging nearby blood vessels and nerves.
For that reason, surgeons frequently try various cementless strategies with younger patients.
In Ryan's case, a surgeon tries to cut out the infection.
Since then surgeons at many medical centers have tried to duplicate their results.
Each time the surgeon tried to protest the charges against him, he said, new charges were added.
He said surgeons would try to return the wrist to its normal position, using a local anesthetic, or else operate.
Plastic surgeons also try to assess the patient's psychological state.
For the last 10 days, surgeons have been trying to save his right leg, which was shattered in the blast.
Some surgeons try to operate a patient as early as possible.
A medical circus followed as surgeons elsewhere tried the experimental operation with little success.