A Comparison of Two Pain Control Techniques on Deliruim in Hip Fracture Patients

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Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2012
The purpose of this study is compare the rates of post-operative delirium between a group of people receiving intravenous (IV) pain control after hip fracture surgery and a group of people receiving a femoral nerve catheter for pain control. Post-operative delirium is confusion that can happen after the deep sleep of anesthesia. AThe hypothesis is that the group receiving the femoral nerve catheter for pain may have a lower incidence of delirium than the group receiveing IV pain medication.
Epistemonikos ID: 90231a674ec038614f8d12259bb78abd00710732
First added on: May 10, 2024