Tranexamic acid in a periarticular multimodal cocktail injection for blood management in total knee arthroplasty: a prospective randomized study

Table 4 Total drainage amount compared among 3 groups

	IV TXA (n=80)	PAMC TXA (n=80)	Combined (n=80)	P value ^a
Total drainage amount (ml)	367.93 ± 87.26	397.66 ± 104.10	326.58 ± 57.55	<0.001
Post hoc test ^b
IV TXA	-	0.072 ^c	0.007 ^d
PAMC TXA	0.072 ^c	-	<0.001 ^e
combined	0.007 ^d	< 0.001 ^e	-

IV intravenous, PAMC peri-articular multimodal cocktail, TXA tranexamic acid
^a Using one-way ANOVA for comparison among groups
^b Using Turkey’s test for pair wise comparison
^c group 1 vs group 2
^d group 1 vs group 3
^e group 2 vs group 3

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