Postoperative Analgesia With Local Infiltration After Femoral Neck Fracture

Phase 4 Completed 50 enrolled Odense University Hospital

RandomizedParallel-groupQuadruple-blindTreatment

Summary

Reducing pain is an essential factor for early mobilization after osteosynthesis of femoral neck fractures. Systemic opioids have side effects that might obstruct mobilization and induce delirium and nausea. The investigators hypothesized that wound infiltration results in reduction in systemic opioid usage and pain relief without side effects.

Timeline

Start: 2008-01
Primary completion: —
Completion: 2008-12

Publications

Bech RD, Lauritsen J, Ovesen O, Emmeluth C, Lindholm P, Overgaard S. Local anaesthetic wound infiltration after internal fixation of femoral neck fractures: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial in 33 patients. Hip Int. 2011 Mar-Apr;21(2):251-9. doi: 10.5301/HIP.2011.6513. Epub 2011 Apr 5.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Comparator	Ropivacaine	Other / unclassified	—	Other

Indications

No indication recorded.