Continuous Spinal Anesthesia With Hypobaric Bupivacaine to Preserve Hemodynamics in Elderly

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2015-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The study evaluates the potential beneficial effects on hemodynamics when hypobaric bupivacaine is used instead of isobaric bupivacaine in continuous spinal anesthesia for surgical repair of hip fracture in elderly patients. Half of the patients will receive hypobaric bupivacaine and the over half will reveive isobaric bupivacaine and hemodynamic data will be compared.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Institut Kassab d'Orthopédie
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Bupivacaine; Ephedrine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients aged more than 65 years and scheduled for a surgical repair of a hip fracture.

Exclusion Criteria:

• contraindication to spinal anesthesia or peripheral nerve blocks including hemostasis anomalies, local infection, allergic reaction to local anesthetics.

• dementia.

• consent refusal.