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. 2024 Mar 7;16(3):e55736. doi: 10.7759/cureus.55736

Table 3. Median Vital Signs After Needle Decompression.

§Interquartile range (IQR)

†Wilcoxon signed-rank test on the pooled estimates from 10 imputed datasets

‡P-value adjusted by the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure to control false discovery rate (FDR) at the 0.05 level

Vital Sign Before After P-value
- Number of observations (%) Median (IQR§) Number of observations (%) Median (IQR§) Raw† FDR adjusted‡
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) 44 (69%) 110 (82-136) 52 (81%) 118 (101-139) 0.045 0.075
Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg) 44 (69%) 68 (53-84) 51 (80%) 72 (64-85) 0.022 0.054
Heart rate (beats per minute) 56 (88%) 103 (85-118) 59 (92%) 100 (90-112) 0.257 0.257
Oxygen saturation (SpO2) 45 (70%) 92 (84-95) 47 (73%) 95 (90-98) 0.001 0.006
Respiratory rate (breaths per minute) 48 (75%) 24 (17-30) 54 (84%) 20 (16-28) 0.229 0.257