Lead Sponsor

Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia

Collaborators

Age

18 - No limit years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

•Age \>18
•Capacity to understand the aim of the study, the potential benefits and side-effects of the procedures
•Capacity to provide consent
•Capacity to provide a self-assessment of pain using the written VAS Scale
•Confirmed radiological diagnosis of hip fractures (including subcapitate, transcervical, intertrochanteric and perthrocanteric fractures)
•Moderate or severe worst pain (visual analogue scale, VAS \>40 mm) (at rest or dynamic)

•Known hypersensitivity to local anaesthetics
•Confirmed radiological diagnosis of subtrochanteric or diaphyseal femur fractures
•Hemodynamic instability
•Known diagnosis of severe cognitive impairment
•Dementia and/or delirium (defined by a 4AT score ≥ 2)
•Lack of capacity to provide consent and to understand the aim of the study
•BMI\>35
•Body weight \< 40 Kg
•Prior hip surgery on the same fracture side
•Mild worst pain (visual analogue scale, VAS \< 40 mm) (at rest or dynamic)

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