Anesthesia And Post-operative Mortality After Proximal Femur Fractures

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2016-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study evaluates the effect of anesthesia on mortality after surgical repair of proximal femur fracture.

Patients will receive either a subarachnoid block or a combination of peripheral nerve blocks and light general anesthesia (PNB/GA).

The investigators hypothesis is that a combination of peripheral nerve blocks with an opioid free light anesthesia may have more favourable outcomes.

Both groups will be followed up for assessment of post-operative morbidity and mortality.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Centro Hospitalar do Porto
• Collaborators: Center for Health Technology and Services Research; Universidade do Porto
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Bupivacaine; Desflurane; Levobupivacaine; Ropivacaine; Sevoflurane

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients admitted wiht a diagnosis of proximal femur fracture (ICD-9 codes 820.0 to 820.9) and submitted to surgical internal fixation of femur or hip prosthesis (ICD-9 codes 7935, 8151 and 8152)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Multiple fractures; polytrauma, active malignancy, ASA(American Society of Anesthesia) status 5, antiplatelet drugs (other than aspirin) in the previous 5 days, known allergies to local anesthetics, contra-indication to general or regional anesthesia