Ain-Shams Journal of Anesthesiology

Table 6 Maximum vasoactive inotropic score

From: Myocardial protection with histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate solution in comparison with hypothermic hyperkalemic blood solution in the correction of acyanotic congenital heart diseases

	Group										P*
	HTK					HHB
	Mean	±SD	Median	IQR		Mean	±SD	Median	IQR
Maximum VIS at 24 h	14.07	2.26	15.00	13.00	15.00	12.93	3.38	14.00	12.00	15.00	0.133
Maximum VIS at 48 h	4.27	1.68	5.00	3.00	5.00	3.90	2.06	4.00	3.00	5.00	0.453

VIS vasoactive inotropic score, HTK histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate, HHB hypothermic hyperkalemic blood, SD standard deviation, IQR interquartile range; *Student’s t test
P value < 0.05 was considered significant

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