A device and method for using the device is used for clotting volumes created postoperatively. The device is inserted into a cavity formed by removal of tissue or organ within a patient. The device may have a flexible tubing having a surface material a blood clotting material enclosed within the surface material of the tubing a guidewire associated with the device that when placed under tension, stabilizes the tubing radially or longitudinally and the surface material of the tubing being removable from the enclosed blood clotting material while the guidewire is under tension.
