Table 3. Postoperative data.
| Robotic surgery (n=16) | Median sternotomy (n=30) | p | |||||
| n | % | Mean±SD | n | % | Mean±SD | ||
| Mortality | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Ventilation time (h) | 5.8±1.4 | 12.5±4.7 | 0.043 | ||||
| Intensive care unit stay (day) | 1.2±0.4 | 1.3±0.8 | 0.411 | ||||
| Hospital stay (day) | 4.3±0.4 | 6±2.4 | 0.048 | ||||
| Inotropic usage | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6.7 | 0.291 | ||
| Pain score | 2.5±0.6 | 4.2±0.9 | 0.022 | ||||
| Drainage (mL) | 110±48.3 | 240±99.4 | 0.001 | ||||
| Blood transfusion | 5 | 31.3 | 20 | 66.7 | 0.022 | ||
| Erythrocyte suspension replacement (unit) | 0.6±0.9 | 1.8±1.7 | 0.014 | ||||
| Postoperative exploration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | ||
| Cardiac tamponade | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | ||
| Postoperative rhythm | |||||||
| Atrial fibrillation | 1 | 6.3 | 3 | 10 | 0.667 | ||
| Atrioventricular block (2nddegree) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.3 | 0.460 | ||
| Neurological complication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | ||
| Surgical wound infection | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | ||
| Recurrence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | ||
| SD: Standard deviation. | |||||||