“…This way, although the survival rate of traumatized patients undergoing EDT has been historically estimated to be, at best, 38%, since the inclusion of protocol-guided timely clamping of the descending thoracic aorta, 90% of survivors have been observed to have no neurological sequelae attributable to the procedure. However, it should be emphasized that, owing to its detrimental effects, aortic clamping should not exceed a duration of 15 minutes, since longer periods are related to a mortality rate that exceeds 80-90% [1][2][3]7,8,10,11 .…”