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. 2018 Nov 1;18:40. doi: 10.1186/s40644-018-0174-4

Table 3.

VAS evaluation of the two group of patients at various time points of the ablation

Time points
Post initiation of ablation
Control Group Experimental Group p-value a
n = 50 n = 50
0.5 min 2.04 ± 1.97 1.02 ± 1.45 0.004
1.5 min 3.98 ± 1.95c 3.06 ± 1.27b 0.006
2.5 min 4.86 ± 1.7c 3.48 ± 1.30b < 0.001
3.5 min 5.18 ± 1.62c 3.16 ± 1.20b < 0.001
4.5 min 4.94 ± 1.64c 2.60 ± 1.09b < 0.001
5.5 min 4.70 ± 1.46c 2.24 ± 0.85b < 0.001
5 min after surgery 0.16 ± 0.55c 0.02 ± 0.14b 0.083
p-value <0.001 <0.001

aComparison between groups; bComparison within groups; cCompared to 0.5 min of the Experimental Group and the p-values were < 0.05