The efficacy of the figure-of-eight suture technique in the treatment of tunnel bleeding of the femoral artery route after percutaneous coronary intervention or angiography

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  Figure 1.. Schematic diagram of the development of tunnel bleeding as a consequence of inserting a catheter into the femoral artery: (a) before drawing the catheter sheath out; (b) tunnel bleeding after drawing the catheter sheath out. The colour version of this figure is available at: http://imr.sagepub.com.

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  Figure 2.. Schematic diagram of the figure-of-eight (FOE) suture technique used in the current prospective, randomized study: (a) the route of the needle moving; (b) the incision closed by the FOE suture. Note: inner side (inner side of the incision), outer side (outer side of the incision), proximal (proximal side of the incision), distal (distal side of the incision), red oval (incision), red line (sutured incision), four green points (in and out points of the needle), blue full line (suture on the surface of the skin), blue dotted line (subcutaneous suture), 1, 2, 3 and 4 (in and out sequence of the needle). The colour version of this figure is available at: http://imr.sagepub.com.

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  Figure 3.. Schematic diagram of the treatment procedure used in the figure-of-eight suture technique group (ES) and the manual compression group (MC). DB, dressing beginning; TB, tunnel bleeding; FDR, final dressing removal; long blue bar, total treatment time; short green bar, performance time; number of short green bars, performance frequency. The colour version of this figure is available at: http://imr.sagepub.com.