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Obturator and Femoral Nerve Block in Patients With Hip Fracture

NCT02540837 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2016-05-16

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Summary

A higher number than expected of patients with hip fracture have only insufficient analgesic effect of a femoral nerve block, which is the nerve block commonly used for this group of patients. One of the possible causes of this failure to provide analgesia from a single nerve block could be the that other nerves are involved in transmitting the pain signal. One of the nerves that is believed to give off branches to the hip is the obturator nerve.

With ultrasound it is possible to make a selective proximal nerve block of the obturator nerve.

The aim of this trial is to test the analgesic effect of a femoral nerve block i combination with an obturator nerve block compared to femoral nerve block alone in a randomized and placebo controlled design.

Conditions

  • Hip Fractures

Interventions

DRUG

Bupivacaine

Obturator nerve block

DRUG

Saline

Obturator nerve block with saline(placebo)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Aarhus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas F. Bendtsen, Ph.d. · Aarhus University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-31
Primary Completion
2017-04-30
Completion
2017-04-30

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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