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

Table 5 Estimated blood loss compared among 3 groups

	IV TXA (n=80)	PAMC TXA (n=80)	Combined (n=80)	P value ^a
Estimated blood loss (ml)	733.11 ± 296.43	737.92 ± 250.94	611.97 ± 227.91	0.003
Post hoc test ^b
IV TXA	-	0.992 ^c	0.010 ^d
PAMC TXA	0.992 ^c	-	0.007 ^e
combined	0.010 ^d	0.007 ^e	-

IV intravenous, PAMC peri-articular multimodal cocktail, TXA tranexamic acid
^a P value is for one-way ANOVA was use to evaluate three 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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