“…It allows time for the surgeon to perform faultless venous anastomoses, and was considered to play a major role in the improvement of results of liver transplantation in the 1980s and dissemination of the transplant technique to the new generation of surgeons 1,2 . However, apart from the cost of the equipment and personnel required to monitor the procedure, complications such as air embolism 3 , massive bleeding, activation of complement factors, fibrinolysis 4 , haemolysis 5 , entrapment of platelets in the tubing 6 , hypothermia 7 , injury to brachial plexus and artery 8 , and lymphatic leakage 9 contribute to patients' morbidity and mortality 10 .…”