Table 8

Operation time and postoperative stay.

Parameters
Value
Group A
Group B
p

Operation Time (min)
Mean
101.17
84.66
0.161

Min
40.00
40.00


Max
270.00
180.00


SEM
9.58
6.54


SD
52.45
35.25


Postoperative Hospital stay (days)
Mean
7.20
5.83
0.064

Min
4.00
3.00


Max
21.00
10.00


SEM
0.66
0.31


SD
3.61
1.65


The operation-time and postoperative stay were lower in the aprotinin-group reaching statistical significance.

Apostolakis et al. Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2008 3:14   doi:10.1186/1749-8090-3-14