(1) The left gastric vessels are then ligated taking the associated nodal tissue with it and avoiding any injury to the common hepatic or splenic arteries.

(2) Then, the arteries were doubly ligated with silk sutures simultaneously.

(3) We performed a splenectomy and ligated the bleeding vessels.

(4) Army nurses worked autonomously in the surgical arena, triaging the wounded, initiating blood transfusions, beginning penicillin regimens for those with open wounds, suturing, and ligating vessels.

(5) The cystic artery is ligated and transected and the gallbladder is dissected from the gallbladder fossa and the right hepatic lobe.