Ultrasound Guided Nerve Block for Hip Fracture Pain Management at Emergency Department

Ultrasound Guided Nerve Block for Hip Fracture Pain Management at Emergency Department

The main objective is to determine if ultrasound guided suprainguinal iliac fascia block leads in better clinical outcomes such as pain management or time to home discharge.

Determining effectiveness in ultrasound guided suprainguinal iliac fascia block as a tool of comfortability of patients with less use of opioids and their side effects and its possible influence in early discharge to home has no evidence in orthopedics literature till today.

Ultrasound becomes an accessible tool at Emergency Departments and Orthopedic Surgeons are increasingly interested its clinical use.

This clinical trial wants to investigate if its use for hip nerve block leads in better clinical outcomes such as pain management or time to home discharge.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Low energy Hip Fracture

Exclusion Criteria:

• Don´t meet Inclusion Criteria
• Present any other synchronic fracture.
• Drug allergy for drugs used for nerve blocking
• Skin infection at injection site.
• Contraindication due to comorbidities.
• Pathologic fractures.
• Cognitive impairment
• Do not give his consent.