Comparative Study Between Levobupivacaine and Ropivacaine in the Hip Fractures of the Elderly

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Prospective, low-level, non-commercial intervention, comparative clinical trial (phase IV) of balanced, randomized groups, to compare the analgesic efficacy of the local anesthetics Ropivacaine and Levobupivacaine in peripheral nerve block in hip fracture surgery in the elderly .

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Fundación Instituto de Estudios de Ciencias de la Salud de Castilla y León
• Collaborator: Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca
• Treatments: Levobupivacaine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• The patient will have to voluntarily sign and understand the informed consent that will be provided in writing.

• Patients over 65 years of age, with a hip fracture, who are going to be operated on at the Salamanca University Assistance Complex (CAUSA).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Rejection of the technique.

• Allergy to any of the drugs.

• Coagulation disorders.

• Local infections instead of puncture.

• Vascular prostheses at the femoral level.