Obturator and Femoral Nerve Block in Patients With Hip Fracture
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2017-04-01
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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.