Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Electrocautery Smoke during Peritonectomy Procedures

Table 3

Spearman rank correlations between PAHs and bleeding.

PAH	Bleeding in 40 peritonectomies
	Correlations	−95% CI	+95% CI	2-sided 𝑃 value
Benzo[a]anthracene P/S	−0.147/0.501	−/0.155	−/0.728	ns/0.05
Benzo[a]pyrene P/S	−0.138/0.596	−/0.283	−/0.785	ns/0.0006
Benzo[b]fluoranthene P/S	−0.121/0.475	−/0.122	−/0.712	ns/0.009
Benzo[k]fluoranthene P/S	−0.111/0.116
Chrysene/triphenylene P/S	−0.123/0.549	−/0.219	−/0.758	ns/0.002
Dibenzo[a,h]anthracene P/S	−0.167/0.324
Indenol[1,2,3-cd]pyrene P/S	−0.116/0.086
Acenaphthene P/S	0.397/0.348	0.028/−	0.662/−	0.03/ns
Acenaphthylene P/S	0.289/0.499	−/0.153	−/0.727	ns/0.005
Anthracene P/S	0.288/0.634	−/0.338	−/0.807	ns/0.0002
Benzo[ghi]perylene P/S	−0.122/0.433	−/0.071	−/0.686	ns/0.01
Phenanthrene P/S	0.061/0.480	−/0.129	−/0.715	ns/0.008
Fluoranthene P/S	0.081/0.492	−/0.145	−/0.723	ns/0.006
Fluorene P/S	0.418/0.538	0.053/0.204	0.676/0.751	0.02/0.002
Naphthalene P/S	0.320/0.455	−/0.098	−/0.700	ns/0.01
Pyrene P/S	0.163/0.573	−/0.251	−/0.772	ns/0.001

PAH: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, P: personal sampling, S: stationary sampling, ns: not significant.