Femoral Nerve Block With Bupivacaine and Adjuvant Dexamethasone in Patients With Hip Fracture
Status:
Terminated
Trial end date:
2015-09-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Prolongation of the analgesic effect of a femoral nerve block from the present 15 hours to 24
hours in patients with hip fracture would have a major impact in order to provide better
preoperative analgesia for this group.
In other trials concerning other nerves then the femoral nerve the addition of Dexamethasone
to the local anesthetics doubled the analgesic duration. No studies has investigated the
effect of the addition of Dexamethasone to the femoral nerve block in patients with hip
fracture.
The aim of our study is to investigate if more patients with hip fracture experience lasting
preoperative analgesia until the time of operation or 20 hours after a femoral nerve block
with the addition of Dexamethasone compared to the same nerve block done without
Dexamethasone.