Early Femoral Block in Elderly With Hip Fracture

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-10-23
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Assess if the addition of an early femoral nerve block (performed within 2 hours from the admission in emergency department through a femoral nerve catheter) in the elderly patients (> 70 years) with hip fracture, reduces the incidence of postoperative delirium assessed by CAM 3Ds test, compared to the traditional systemic pain therapy.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO
• Treatments: Pharmaceutical Solutions; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients aged >70 years with femoral neck fracture, and admission in ED from Monday to Friday (from 8.00 am to 20.00 pm)

• American society of anesthesiologists (ASA) Physical status classification I-III

• Signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• ASA>3

• Contraindications to the regional anesthesia

• Patients allergic to one or more drugs used in the study

• Patients who are unable or refuse to provide informed consent

• Patients who show a cognitive impairment or signs of confusion or delirium already on arrival in ED

• Patients with access to ED Outside the times set in the inclusion criteria

• Postoperative ICU admission

• Patients with Hb < 8 mg/dl at admission