Effectiveness of Hemopatch® versus Surgicel® Original to control mild and moderate liver bleeding

BMC Surgery

Table 2 Kaplan–Meier estimates of median time to hemostasis

	Overall^a		VIBe SCALE grade 1 bleeding		VIBe SCALE grade 2 bleeding
	Median (min)	95% CI	Median (min)	95% CI	Median (min)	95% CI
Hemopatch®	2 (n = 198)	[2, 2]	2 (n = 99)	[2, 2]	3 (n = 99)	[2, 7]
Surgicel® Original	2 (n = 199)	[2, 5]	2 (n = 100)	[2, 2]	NA^b (n = 99)	[10, NA^b]
P-value of difference in bleeding curves	0.0013		0.5574		9.33 × 10⁻⁶

^aVIBe SCALE grade 1 and grade 2 bleeding combined
^bCould not be computed because less than half of the lesions had achieved hemostasis

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