Advantages and Issues of Concern Regarding Approaches to Peripheral Nerve Block for Total Hip Arthroplasty

Overview

Journal World J Clin Cases

Publisher Baishideng Publishing Group

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2022 Jan 24

PMID 35071584

Authors

Marco Crisci

Arturo Cuomo

Cira Antonietta Forte

Sabrina Bimonte

Gennaro Esposito

Maura C Tracey

Marco Cascella

Affiliations

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Abstract

In older patients with comorbidities, hip fractures are both an important and debilitating condition. Since multimodal and multidisciplinary perioperative strategies can hasten functional recovery after surgery improving clinical outcomes, the choice of the most effective and safest pathway represents a great challenge. A key point of concern is the anesthetic approach and above all the choice of the locoregional anesthesia combined with general or neuraxial anesthesia.

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