This is a Study to Verify if Periarticular Hip Injection of Corticosteroid After Hip Replacement Reduce the Pain and the Hospitalisation Time
Trial Parameters
Brief Summary
The investigators are going to evaluate if periarticular corticosteroid injection during endoprothesis implantation can lead to any advantage to the patients, namely if it can reduce post-operative pain, lenght and cost of hospitalisation, use of analgesics drugs.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients undergoing unilateral cemented hip endoprosthesis for femoral neck fracture * Patients aged 50-90 years old * Patients with a BMI \>18.5 and \<35 * Patients able to provide informed consent and follow all the study procedures as indicated by the protocol * Informed Consent as documented by signature Exclusion Criteria: * Contraindications to steroids * Revision endoprosthesis * Active steroid or immunosuppressive therapy in the last 30 days before the operation * Pregnant or breast-feeding women * Presence of other clinically significant concomitant disease states (ASA IV) * Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus * Contraindications to NSAIDs * Chronic systemic diseases as immunodeficiency, autoimmune disease (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, SLE), gout, rheumatic arthritis * Known or suspected non-compliance, drug or alcohol abuse * Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems, psychological disorders, dementia, etc. of the partici