NCT01630343

Pain Management in Geriatric Hip Fracture

The Efficacy of Pain Management Protocol for Elderly Hip Fracture Patients After Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 400 (actual)
• Sponsor: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The Null Hypothesis is that there is no association between Pain regime and the functional performance among geriatric patients having traumatic hip fracture. Two limbs are being assessed:1. Three weeks of regular oral Panadol and Tramadol after hip fracture 2. Oral Panadol and tramadol taking in p.r.n. basis. Functional outcome including Numerical Rate Scale for pain assessment, Functional Independency Measure and Elderly Mobility Score are chosen.

Detailed description

200X2 patients are recruited during two periods within the study period where regular oral analgesics is given for the first 200 patients while the rest of patient will receive oral analgesics upon demand

Conditions

• Geriatric Hip Fracture Pain Management

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Paracetamol tablet and Tramadol capsule	Panadol 500mg tablet Q4H prn Tramadol 50mg capsule Q4H prn
DRUG	Panadol 500mg tablet, tramadol 50mg capsule	Regular Panadol 500mg tds with tramadol 50mg capsule tds for 3 weeks after injury

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-04-01
• Completion: 2012-04-01
• First posted: 2012-06-28
• Last updated: 2012-07-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China