Effectiveness of hemostatic agents in thyroid surgery for the prevention of postoperative bleeding.

Sci Rep · 2020 · PMC7000666 · PMID 32019979

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.087so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The use of Tachosil® (not combined with another hemostyptic agent) reduced the rate to 1.4%, even though this difference did not reach statistical significance in the Fisher’s exact test (p = 0.087).

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showed a trendno p-value reported

Our cohort showed a trend to less postoperative bleeding by using hemostyptic patches, although missing significance.

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