This is a Study to Verify if Periarticular Hip Injection of Corticosteroid After Hip Replacement … (NCT05023369) | Clinical Trial Compass
RecruitingPhase 4
This is a Study to Verify if Periarticular Hip Injection of Corticosteroid After Hip Replacement Reduce the Pain and the Hospitalisation Time
Switzerland110 participantsStarted 2021-12-10
Plain-language summary
The investigators are going to evaluate if periarticular corticosteroid injection during endoprothesis implantation can lead to any advantage to the patients, namely if it can reduce post-operative pain, lenght and cost of hospitalisation, use of analgesics drugs.
Who can participate
Age range50 Years – 90 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Patients undergoing unilateral cemented hip endoprosthesis for femoral neck fracture
* Patients aged 50-90 years old
* Patients with a BMI \>18.5 and \<35
* Patients able to provide informed consent and follow all the study procedures as indicated by the protocol
* Informed Consent as documented by signature
Exclusion Criteria:
* Contraindications to steroids
* Revision endoprosthesis
* Active steroid or immunosuppressive therapy in the last 30 days before the operation
* Pregnant or breast-feeding women
* Presence of other clinically significant concomitant disease states (ASA IV)
* Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
* Contraindications to NSAIDs
* Chronic systemic diseases as immunodeficiency, autoimmune disease (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, SLE), gout, rheumatic arthritis
* Known or suspected non-compliance, drug or alcohol abuse
* Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems, psychological disorders, dementia, etc. of the participant.
* Participation in another study with investigational drug within the 30 days preceding and during the present study
* Previous enrolment into the current study
* Enrolment of the investigator, his/her family members, employees and other dependent persons.