Research Article
Incidence and Factors Predicting Skin Burns at the Site of Indifferent Electrode during Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Table 1
Comparisons for nominal variables between the cases (burn patients) and the controls1.
| | Characteristic | Cases (%) | Controls (%) | value |
| | Hypertension | 5/6 (83.3%) | 20/24 (83.3%) | 0.746 | | Diabetes | 2/6 (33.3%) | 5/24 (20.8%) | 0.433 | | Postprocedure pain | 4/6 (67.7%) | 0/24 (0%) | 0.001 | | Type of skin patch | | | 0.545 | | 3M stockert skin patch | 4/6 (66.7%) | 14/24 (58.3%) | | | Valley Lab skin patch | 2/6 (33.3%) | 10/24 (41.7%) | | | General anesthesia | 4/6 (66.7%) | 13/24 (54.2%) | 0.469 |
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1The one-tailed Fisher’s exact test was used for the analyses.
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