Table 1.
Classification of techniques for the control of presacral bleeding
| Pelvic plugging | |
| Traditional with compresses | |
| Sengstaken-Blakemore tube | |
| Linton balloon | |
| Compartmental hemostatic balloon | |
| IV Saline Bag | |
| Breast implant | |
| Plugging with rectus abdominis muscle | |
| Plugging with Bonewax® | |
| Plugging with bone cement | |
| Bakri balloon | |
| Metal implants | |
| Simple pins | |
| Helical titanium pins + Surgicel® | |
| Staples + cancellous bone + Surgicel® | |
| Ligaclips® | |
| Topical hemostatic agents | |
| Cyanoacrylate | |
| Cyanoacrylate + Surgicel® | |
| Ankaferd Blood Stopper® | |
| Floseal® + Surgicel® | |
| Direct suture | |
| Infrarenal aorta clamp + PVS suture | |
| Suture-circular ligature | |
| Direct/indirect electrocoagulation | |
| Spray electrocautery | |
| Bipolar coagulation | |
| Argon coagulation | |
| Electrocoagulation on a piece of epiploic appendix/muscle fragment |