Performance assessment of bi-directional knotless tissue-closure devices in juvenile Chinook salmon surgically implanted with acoustic transmitters

Table 1 Observed metrics for each suture pattern treatment

Observation	Day	6-Point	Wide “N”	Wide “N” Knot 12	Wide “N” Knot 18
Expelled transmitters	14	0%	33%	0%	33%
Incision openness	7	0.59 ± 1.10	2.86 ± 3.01	1.05 ± 2.17	2.37 ± 4.10
Incision openness	14	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	7.12 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00
Ulceration	7	1.99 ± 2.28	0.02 ± 0.06	1.04 ± 1.73	0.25 ±0.36
Ulceration	14	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.29 ± 0.41	0.30 ± 0.29
Erythema	7	1.24 ± 1.66	0.14 ± 0.25	0.25 ± 0.23	5.88 ± 7.83
	14	0.00 ± 0.00	0.02 ± 0.04	0.39 ± 0.88	0.12 ± 0.15

The frequency of occurrence as a percentage for transmitter expulsion is shown for each treatment. The average area ± SD for incision openness, ulceration and erythema on each observation day for each treatment is shown for each treatment.

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