Analgesia for Positioning Hip Fracture Patients for Spinal Anesthesia

Asklepieion Voulas General Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hip Fracture

Treatments: Drug: Fentanyl; Drug: ropivacaine; Procedure: Fascia iliaca compartment block

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02037633

478-9227/25-7-2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare two analgesic methods performed preoperatively to assist positioning patients for performance of spinal anesthesia, namely fascia iliaca blockade and intravenous fentanyl.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hip fracture

Exclusion criteria

• contraindications for central nervous blockade
• impaired cognition or dementia
• multiple fractures
• any previous analgesic administration during the last 12 hours

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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41 participants in 2 patient groups

Fascia iliaca compartment block

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: ropivacaine

Procedure: Fascia iliaca compartment block

Fentanyl

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: Fentanyl