Comparative Assessment of Effectiveness and Safety of Lumbar Erector Spinae Plane Block (L-ESPB) Versus Absence of Locoregional Block in Hip Surgery

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Drug
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Phase 4
SUMMARY

Hip surgery accounts for a high percentage of both emergency and elective surgical procedures in hospitals. Regardless of surgery being prescribed to treat a fracture or coxarthrosis, patients are usually elderly with multiple associated comorbidities. When faced with this patient profile, there is a tendency to undertreat pain for fear of the side effects and pharmacological interactions of conventional analgesic drugs. Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia applied in orthopedic and trauma surgery has been shown to reduce the doses of opioids and conventional analgesics, to ease deambulation and early recovery, to improve respiratory dynamics and to reduce vein thrombosis and pneumonias. Our study aims to verify whether L-ESP block is effective in the hip and proximal femur surgeries and allows to lower the dosage of opioids in these patients.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:

• Both sexes over 18 years of age having undergone hip surgery

• ASA I-III (classification system used by the American Society of Anesthesiologists where I is low anesthetic risk and IV is high risk)

• Capacity to comprehend the principles of pain assessment using the VAS visual analogue scale

• Previously signed an informed consent.

Locations
Other Locations
Spain
Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro
RECRUITING
Vigo
Contact Information
Primary
Laura García Reza
laura.garcia.reza@sergas.es
626708239
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-06-08
Estimated Completion Date: 2025-12-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 180
Treatments
Experimental: ESP-L
After hip fracture surgery ultrasound-guided ESP-L shall be carried out at the L3-14 level with 30 mL of levobupivacaine 0.25%
No_intervention: No ESP-L
Conventional intravenous analgesia after hip fracture surgery
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro

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