Perioperative outcomes following preoperative epidural analgesia in hip fracture patients undergoing surgical repair: A systematic review.
Jonathan V ChoiRachel M CheungMichelle R MozelRichard Neville MerchantSusan M LeePublished in: Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) (2021)
Preoperative epidural analgesia for hip fracture may reduce perioperative cardiac events and mortality, but the number of included studies in this systematic review was low. More research should be done to determine the benefit of early epidural analgesia for hip fractured patients.
Keyphrases
- hip fracture
- patients undergoing
- systematic review
- spinal cord
- pain management
- ultrasound guided
- end stage renal disease
- postoperative pain
- cardiac surgery
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- heart failure
- randomized controlled trial
- left ventricular
- spinal cord injury
- chronic pain
- total hip arthroplasty