Table 3.

Duration of retained drains, complications and length of hospital stay

	Pressure dressing (n = 57)	Non-pressure dressing (n = 59)	p-value	95% Confidence Interval of the difference
Duration of retained drains (days)	2.32 ± 0.51	2.36 ± 0.71	0.225a	-0.27–0.19a
Complications
Cutaneous bruising	1	0	1.044b
Hemorrhage	0	1	0.975b
Hospital stay (days)	4.37 ± 0.52	4.37 ± 0.69	0.543a	-0.23–0.22a

P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant

^a Calculated using the unpaired t-test

^b Calculated with the chi-square test