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 |