Emergency Physician-performed Ultrasound-guided Femoral Nerve Blocks in Patients With Hip Fractures.
Trial Parameters
Brief Summary
In this prospective study, emergency physicians perform ultrasound-guided femoral nerve block for patients with hip fractures. We compare the effectiveness of analgesia and patient satisfaction of ultrasound-guided femoral nerve block with liberal use of the pain medicine in the emergency department. The primary outcome is the assessment of time to relief the pain with fewer adverse effects and less rescue pain medication use. The secondary outcome is patient satisfaction and adverse effects for different method of pain control.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients older than 20-year-old with hip fractures * Stay in the emergency department for at lease two hours Exclusion Criteria: * hemodynamic unstable * major trauma in addition to hip fractures * the use of any pain management before the arrival of emergency department * chronic opioid use * inability to understood the numerical rating scale after instruction * allergy to local anesthetics * coagulopathy * injection site infection