“…Since Margolies et al's report of successful TCVO in trauma patients in 1972 [41], TCVO has been used in many clinical circumstances [26,39,[42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52]. The most frequent clinical application of TCVO is the control of hemorrhage either as a s u r g i c a l a d j u v a n t or p r i m a r y p r o c e d u r e [26,39,41,43,[53][54][55].…”