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Fascia Iliaca Compartment Blockade as Analgesia for Hip Fractures in the Acute Phase

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Hvidovre University Hospital

Status and phase

Completed
Phase 4

Conditions

Hip Fracture

Treatments

Procedure: Fascia Iliaca Compartment Blockade

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00162630
HHSG-rct-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the analgesic potential of an neural blockade (Fascia iliaca compartment) with local anaesthetics in patients with hip fracture immediately after arrival in the emergency department.

Full description

Hip fracture patients have severe pain in the acute phase. Traditional analgesic treatment have consisted of intramuscular morphine with its associated side effects. The trial evaluates the Fascia iliaca compartment compared to regular opioid pain therapy in hip fracture patinets immediately after arrival at the emergency department.

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Primary hip fracture suspected
  • able to give informed consent
  • no substance abuse
  • no regular opioid therapy
  • no opioid treatment within the last 6 hours
  • morphine intolerance
  • allergies to local anaesthetics

Exclusion criteria

  • Fracture ruled out on x-ray

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

Trial contacts and locations

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