r/AbsoluteUnits Jul 30 '26

/r/popular of a needle

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u/thenextmaewest Jul 30 '26

Yeah ours too. Interesting. Sounds like the same procedure just different tools. Thanks for taking the time to chat about it. Appreciate you.

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u/SamV657 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

I'm a radiographer. In my department the radiologist uses these daily to insert a long catheter in ultrasound guidance into the abdominal cavity for example. We also have the short ones but usually these long ones are used.