Table 2.

Patient Information and Immediate Surgical Outcomes By Suture Type for the 51 Most Recent V-Loc Barbed Suture Procedures (All After 6/10/2010), and the 50 Most Recent Vicryl Figure-of-8 Procedures (All After 12/22/2009)

	n	Median	Range	P Valuea
Age				.05
Vicryl Figure-of-8 Suture	50	47	31 to 64
V-Loc Suture	51	44	29 to 66
Body Mass Index (kg/m2)				.15
Vicryl Figure-of-8 Suture	50	29.7	18.6 to 51.6
V-Loc Suture	51	31.1	18.0 to 56.9
Pathology Weight (g)
Vicryl Figure-of-8 Suture	49	200	53.6 to 1290	.87
V-Loc Suture	51	220	55 to 770
Estimated Blood Loss (mL)				.08
Vicryl Figure-of-8 Suture	50	50	20 to 1000
V-Loc Sutures	51	50	10 to 300
Procedure Duration (min)				.005
Vicryl Figure-of-8 Suture	50	183	80 to 625
V-Loc Suture	49	135	30 to 299
Length of Stay				.17
Vicryl Figure-of-8 Suture	50	1	1 to 5
V-Loc Suture	51	1	1 to 9

^aP value for comparison of Vicryl figure-of-8 sutures to V-Loc barbed sutures based on a Wilcoxon Rank Sum test.