Status:
COMPLETED
Fascia Iliaca Compartment Block for Pain Management in Hip Fracture Patients
Lead Sponsor:
General Hospital Sveti Duh
Conditions:
Hip Fractures
Eligibility:
All Genders
65+ years
Phase:
PHASE4
Brief Summary
BLOCKPAIN is a randomized controlled study, 80 participants. The participants will be hip fracture patients in Emergency Medicine Department in Clinical Hospital "Sveti Duh", Zagreb, Croatia. Upon pat...
Detailed Description
Hip fractures in older patients are a major public health problem. For acute pain management, nonopioid analgesics are often not sufficient enough, and opioids have many adverse events. For this reaso...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- hip fracture after minor trauma/simple falls, confirmed by imaging technique (X-ray or CT scan or MRI)
- signed informed consent form (after a verbal explanation and written information sheet)
Exclusion
- pathological fracture
- head injury
- body mass bellow 50 kg
- cognitive impairment (Abbreviated Mental Test Score less then 6 points)
- oral anticoagulant drugs
- prior drug allergy (paracetamol, tramadol, local anesthetics)
- prior peripheral artery bypass surgery (on the same side as hip fracture)
- skin or soft tissue infection in the groin area (on the same side as hip fracture)
- simultaneously bilateral hip fracture
- opioid analgesics prior to hospital arrival
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 21 2021
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 27 2022
Estimated Enrollment :
80 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04837924
Start Date
April 21 2021
End Date
May 27 2022
Last Update
August 3 2022
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Clinical Hospital "Sveti Duh"
Zagreb, Croatia, 10 000