Table 2.

Intraoperative and postoperative parameters

	Dreal	Control
Surgery time (skin to skin)
ACCF	71 min (sd = 12, n = 29)
ACCF + ACDF at an adjacent level	91 min (sd = 15.6, n = 9)	94 min (sd = 31, n = 8)
ACCF, skip level	131 min (n = 1)
Two-level ACCF		80 min (sd = 13, n = 2)
Blood loss
0-300 ml	n = 42 (98%)	n = 10 (100%)
400 ml	n = 1 (2%, the ACCF skip-level procedure)
Hospitalization
ACCF	3.3 days (sd = 1.1, n = 32)
ACCF + ACDF at an adjacent level	3.9 days (sd = 1.7, n = 10)	3.5 (sd = 0.5, n = 8)
ACCF, skip level	3 days (n = 1)
2ACCF		5.5 days (n = 2)