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Table 1
Patient demographics and peri-operative characteristics.
| Category | Subcategory | Drain |
No drain |
p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 38 | (%) | N = 38 | (%) | |||
| Age | Mean (SD) | 40.5 | (16.9) | 36.2 | (12.4) | 0.21 |
| Sex | Male | 23 | (61) | 29 | (76) | 0.14 |
| Female | 15 | (39) | 9 | (24) | ||
| Patient occupation | Trading | 7 | (18) | 8 | (21) | 0.073 |
| Housewife | 4 | (11) | 2 | (5) | ||
| Student | 8 | (21) | 5 | (13) | ||
| Commercial cyclist | 0 | (0) | 7 | (18) | ||
| Corps member | 4 | (11) | 2 | (5) | ||
| Engineer | 6 | (16) | 1 | (3) | ||
| Clergy | 3 | (8) | 2 | (5) | ||
| Teaching | 3 | (8) | 5 | (13) | ||
| Driver | 0 | (0) | 3 | (8) | ||
| Artisan/electrician | 0 | (0) | 1 | (3) | ||
| Civil servant | 2 | (5) | 1 | (3) | ||
| Medical doctor | 1 | (3) | 0 | (0) | ||
| Farming | 0 | (0) | 1 | (3) | ||
| Mechanism of injury | Motor vehicle | 15 | (39) | 15 | (39) | 0.94 |
| Motorcycle | 8 | (21) | 11 | (29) | ||
| Tricycle | 6 | (16) | 5 | (13) | ||
| Pedestrian | 2 | (5) | 3 | (8) | ||
| Fall from height | 2 | (5) | 1 | (3) | ||
| Sports | 1 | (3) | 0 | (0) | ||
| Fall on slippery ground/floor | 3 | (8) | 2 | (5) | ||
| Object fell onto thigh | 1 | (3) | 1 | (3) | ||
| Injury laterality | Right | 19 | (50) | 20 | (53) | 0.38 |
| Left | 15 | (39) | 17 | (45) | ||
| Both | 4 | (11) | 1 | (3) | ||
| Bone involved | Femur | 9 | (24) | 23 | (61) | 0.002 |
| Tibia | 13 | (34) | 10 | (26) | ||
| Humerus | 16 | (42) | 5 | (13) | ||
| Site of fracture | Proximal diaphyseal | 15 | (39) | 11 | (29) | 0.48 |
| Middle diaphyseal | 19 | (50) | 20 | (53) | ||
| Distal diaphyseal | 4 | (11) | 7 | (18) | ||
| EBL | Mean (SD) | 207.4 | (132.9) | 246.1 | (132.2) | 0.21 |
| Surgeon training level | Consultant | 23 | (61) | 20 | (53) | 0.49 |
| Senior registrars | 15 | (39) | 18 | (47) | ||
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