Postoperative Analgesia With Local Infiltration After Hip Fracture Of Intertrochanteric Type

Odense University Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Hip Fracture of Intertrochanteric Type

Treatments: Drug: Ropivacaine; Drug: Saline

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01119209

S-VF-20060072 - trochanteric

Details and patient eligibility

About

Reducing pain is an essential factor for early mobilization after osteosynthesis of intertrochanteric 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: 74 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Intertrochanteric hip 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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74 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Ropivacaine

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: Saline

Drug: Ropivacaine

Saline

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: Saline