A Randomized Controlled Trial: Comparison of 4% Articaine versus 0.5% Bupivacaine for Ambulatory Orthopedic Surgery under Supraclavicular Block

Table 1

Patient demographics.

	Articaine group	Bupivacaine group	value
Number of patients	48	49	—
Gender, n (%)	Female, 29 (60.4%)	Female, 21 (44%)	0.084
	Male, 19 (39.6%)	Male, 28 (56%)	—
BMI^##	29.9 (3.1)	30.2 (3.3)	0.646
Age (±SD)	43.5 (±13.9)	43.2 (±14.7)	0.918
Elective surgery, n (%)	34 (70.8%)	28 (57.1%)	0.161
Emergency surgery, n (%)	14 (29.2%)	21 (42.9%)	—
Surgery duration, min (±SD)	26 (±15)	32 (±18)	0.078

Values are expressed as the mean (standard deviation), absolute number is expressed as (n (%)), to be statistically significant, and to be nonsignificant.