Pain Management in Geriatric Hip Fracture

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2012-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The Null Hypothesis is that there is no association between Pain regime and the functional performance among geriatric patients having traumatic hip fracture. Two limbs are being assessed:1. Three weeks of regular oral Panadol and Tramadol after hip fracture 2. Oral Panadol and tramadol taking in p.r.n. basis. Functional outcome including Numerical Rate Scale for pain assessment, Functional Independency Measure and Elderly Mobility Score are chosen.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Tramadol

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Both sex of Age > 65

• Traumatic non-pathological fracture neck of femur or trochanteric or subtrochanteric fracture having operative intervention

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age < 65

• Pathological fracture

• Multiple lower limb fractures

• Old fracture