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Emergency Physician-performed Ultrasound-guided Femoral Nerve Blocks in Patients With Hip Fractures.
Led by National Taiwan University Hospital · Updated on 2025-08-05
80
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
130 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
In this prospective study, emergency physicians perform ultrasound-guided femoral nerve block for patients with hip fractures. We compare the effectiveness of analgesia and patient satisfaction of ultrasound-guided femoral nerve block with liberal use of the pain medicine in the emergency department. The primary outcome is the assessment of time to relief the pain with fewer adverse effects and less rescue pain medication use. The secondary outcome is patient satisfaction and adverse effects for different method of pain control.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Emergency Physician-performed Ultrasound-guided Femoral Nerve Blocks in Patients With Hip Fractures.
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Patients older than 20-year-old with hip fractures
- Stay in the emergency department for at lease two hours
You will not qualify if you...
- Hemodynamic unstable
- Major trauma in addition to hip fractures
- Use of any pain management before arrival to emergency department
- Chronic opioid use
- Inability to understand the numerical rating scale after instruction
- Allergy to local anesthetics
- Coagulopathy
- Injection site infection
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
NTUH Yunlin Branch
Douliu, Yunlin County, Taiwan, 640
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Research Team
Y
YILIN LEE
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
SEQUENTIAL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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