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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gynecol Oncol. 2014 Jun 16;134(2):248–252. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2014.06.007

Table 3.

Operative time, conversion rates, blood loss and transfusion rates

Surgical Start Time
Before 12p After 12p Total
N % N % N % P-value
Operative Time (minutes) 0.102
 N 134 244 378
 Mean 213.4 231.1 224.9
 Minimum 73.0 81.0 73.0
 Maximum 393.0 633.0 633.0
Surgical Complexity 0.434
Conversion to Open 0.098
 No 118 87.4 227 92.7 345 90.8
 Yes 17 12.6 18 7.4 35 9.2
  Reason 0.196
   Adhesions 2 11.8 5 27.8 7 20.0
   Unable to Keep Trendelenberg 3 17.7 1 5.6 4 11.4
   Difficulty to Achieve Visualization 3 17.7 6 33.3 9 25.7
   Vascular Injury 1 5.9 3 16.7 4 11.4
   Enterotomy 1 5.9 1 5.6 2 5.7
   Obesity 1 5.9 2 11.1 3 8.6
   Large and Bulky Lymph Nodes 1 5.9 0 0.0 1 2.9
   Uterus Removal 4 23.5 0 0.0 4 11.4
Estimated Blood Loss (cc) 0.751
 N 135 245
 Mean 142.5 161.5 154.8
 Minimum 10 10 10
 Maximum 1000 35000 3500
Blood Transfusion 0.845
 No 125 92.6 224 91.4 349 91.8
 Yes 10 7.4 20 8.2 30 7.9