Postoperative Analgesia With Local Infiltration After Femoral Neck Fracture

Odense University Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Femoral Neck Fracture

Treatments: Drug: Ropivacaine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00529425

S-VF-20060072 - femoral neck

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Femoral neck fracture
• Fracture due to low energy trauma
• Ability to understand danish and give informed consent
• Ability to walk before trauma
• Indication for osteosynthesis
• ≥ 8 in OMC (Orientation-Memory-Concentration) test with a possible maximum of 28 points
• Informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Drug or medical abuse
• Drug intolerance
• Pathological fractures
• Inflammatory arthritis
• Patient included in the study with the contralateral hip

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Ropivacaine

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: Ropivacaine

Saline

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: Ropivacaine