Table 4.

Heart rate (mean ± SD, beats/ min) of the two groups of patients at various time points of the surgery

Time points Post initiation of ablation	Control Group	Experimental Group	p-value a
Before Surgery	70.56 ± 8.18	72.52 ± 10.37	0.437
Before initiation of ablation	71.84 ± 8.98c	74.06 ± 10.96b	0.271
0.5 min	72.88 ± 7.84c	74.64 ± 11.87b	0.384
1.5 min	74.58 ± 9.91c	74.48 ± 12.61	0.965
2.5 min	75.32 ± 10.57c	74.42 ± 12.3	0.696
3.5 min	76.52 ± 11.15c	73.37 ± 11.87	0.176
	77.33 ± 12.02c	73.79 ± 10.96	0.135
5.5 min	78.89 ± 12.29c	73.98 ± 9.69	0.044
5 min after surgery	73.22 ± 7.77c	71.86 ± 9.53	0.436
p-value	< 0.001	0.046	–

^aComparison between groups; ^bComparison within groups; ^cCompared to Experimental Group before surgery, and the p-values were < 0.05