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Postoperative Analgesia for Fractured Neck of Femur With Periarticular Infiltration of Local Anaesthetic

NCT02057601 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 37

Last updated 2014-02-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine that periarticular levobupivacaine infiltration after surgical fixation of fractured neck of femur will improve the early postoperative pain sensation.

Conditions

  • Fractured Neck of Femur
  • Postoperative Pain

Interventions

DRUG

Levobupivacaine infiltration group

The patients in the intervention group will receive peri-surgical site infiltration before wound closure with a solution of levobupivacaine 0.5% 2mg/kg body weight with epinephrine made up to a volume of 1.5ml/kg with saline.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cork University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-06-30
Completion
2013-06-30

Countries

  • Ireland

Study Locations

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