Emergency Physician-performed Ultrasound-guided Femoral Nerve Blocks in Patients With Hip Fractures.
Ultrasound-Guided Femoral Nerve Block
National Taiwan University Hospital
80 participants
Jul 3, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
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.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria2
- Patients older than 20-year-old with hip fractures
- Stay in the emergency department for at lease two hours
Exclusion Criteria8
- hemodynamic unstable
- major trauma in addition to hip fractures
- the use of any pain management before the arrival of emergency department
- chronic opioid use
- inability to understood the numerical rating scale after instruction
- allergy to local anesthetics
- coagulopathy
- injection site infection
Interventions
Intravenous or intramuscular pain medication is given for patients with hip fracture.
The local analgesia is injected and infiltrated around the femoral nerve under ultrasound guidance.
Locations(1)
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NCT05969561