Table 4.

Percentage of patients crossing the patient acceptable symptoms state (PASS) threshold for pain measured by the visual analogue scale

	Percentage of patients crossing the PASS for VAS		p -value
	Control group	DCIVNPP group
Day 0	97 (28.7%)	128 (37.9%)	0.01
First night	94 (27.8%)	122 (36.1%)	0.03
Day 1	99 (29.3%)	144 (42.6%)	< 0.01
Day 2	147 (43.5%)	185 (54.7%)	< 0.01
Day 3	190 (56.2%)	237 (70.1%)	< 0.01

PASS patient acceptable symptoms state, VAS visual analogue scale, DCIVNPP Dynamic intermittent compression cryotherapy with intravenous-nefopam pain management protocol