Regional Versus General Anesthesia for Promoting Independence After Hip Fracture

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hip Fractures

In brief

The purpose of this study is to find out if two types of standard care anesthesia are the same or if one is better for people who have hip fractures.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02507505

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

1848

Starts

2016-02-01

Expected to finish

2022-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2024-05-13

Who can join

Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Clinically or radiographically diagnosed intracapsular or extracapsular hip fracture
• Planned surgical treatment via hemiarthroplasty, total hip arthroplasty or appropriate fixation procedure
• Ability to walk 10 feet or across a room without human assistance before fracture

You may not qualify if…

• Planned concurrent surgery not amenable to spinal anesthesia
• Absolute contraindications to spinal anesthesia
• Periprosthetic fracture

Where it is running

• University of Alabama Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• University of California Davis Medical Center — Sacramento, California, United States
• Hartford Hospital — Hartford, Connecticut, United States
• Yale School of Medicine — New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• Christiana Care Health Services — Newark, Delaware, United States
• University of Florida Gainesville — Gainesville, Florida, United States
• University of Florida Jacksonville — Jacksonville, Florida, United States
• Florida Hospital — Winter Park, Florida, United States
• Northwestern University — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics — Iowa City, Iowa, United States
• Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Brigham & Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Lahey Hospital & Medical Center — Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
• Henry Ford Hospital — Detroit, Michigan, United States
• Cooper University Hospital — Camden, New Jersey, United States
• Englewood Hospital and Medical Center — Englewood, New Jersey, United States
• Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital — New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
• Maimonides Medical Center — Brooklyn, New York, United States
• NYU-Winthrop Hospital — Mineola, New York, United States
• NYU Langone Medical Center — New York, New York, United States
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center — New York, New York, United States
• Stony Brook University — Stony Brook, New York, United States
• Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
• Cleveland Clinic — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• Sacred Heart at RiverBend — Springfield, Oregon, United States

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