A Trick to Control the Bleeding in Cardiovascular Surgery

When accidental bleeding happens on the posterior wall of vena cava during the procedure of vena cava cannulation [Figure 1]a, two pieces of thymus gland tissue around 2 cm × 1 cm were taken as the mattress tips, and these two pieces of tissue were put aside the bottom of vena cava, then use Prolene (Ethicon, Somerville, NJ, USA) to pass through the interspace under the posterior wall to make a mattress suture [Figure 1]b...