NCT00964808

Norspan Versus Oxycontin as Postoperative Painkiller to Proximal Extracapsular Fractures of the Femur

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 76 (actual)
• Sponsor: Vejle Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Effective treatment of pain after hip fractures is very important but difficult. It is often an old patient who has many adverse effects with the use of morphine. This is a randomized pilot study where the investigators want to compare Norspan plaster to Oxycontin tablets to patients with particular kind of hip fractures. The investigators will evaluate mobilization, pain, use of rescue medicine, adverse effects and length of stay. No clinical study about the effect of Norspan as acute painkiller has never been done before. Can the investigators get the patients mobilized earlier with less adverse effects?

Conditions

• Pain, Postoperative

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Buprenorphine	Start: Day 0 (T=0), 10 micrograms/t until the day of discharge from the Hospital. New plaster at T= 7 days.
DRUG	Oxycodone	Start: 10 hours (+/- 2 hours) after the operation. Dosage: 10 mg \* 2 pr. day until time to discharge from the Hospital or latest at day 12.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-05-01
• Completion: 2013-08-01
• First posted: 2009-08-25
• Last updated: 2014-12-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark