Ultrasound-guided Suprainguinal Fascia Iliaca Compartment Block for Analgesia After Total Hip Arthroplasty
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Trial end date:
2020-12-01
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Summary
Total hip replacement (THR) is a common and major surgical procedure performed in elderly
patients with significant comorbidities. Optimizing a patient's anesthetic and analgesic
modalities could play a significant role in minimizing the risk of adverse events in the
perioperative period and potentially shorten time to discharge and recovery.
Establishing a safe and effective post-operative analgesic plan is of central importance to
successful THR anesthesia care. The application of ultrasound visualization has improved the
efficacy of the fascia iliaca compartment block (FICB). However, ultrasound-guided
suprainguinal FICB has not yet been evaluated clinically in a large trial as a method of
providing post-operative analgesia following THR.
The investigators hypothesize that by performing the suprainguinal fascia iliaca block with
ultrasound, it will be possible to achieve superior and more reliable analgesia in the first
24 hours than without a block.