Local Anesthetic Wound Infiltration after Osteosynthesis of Extracapsular Hip Fracture Does Not Reduce Pain or Opioid Requirements: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Clinical Trial in 49 Patients.

Although not statistically significant, we noticed that patients who received the planned spinal anesthesia and were allocated to ropivacaine infiltration showed a trend toward lower median consumption of rescue analgesia during the intervention period and the following day equivalent to 11 mg (≈2 standard rescue dosages) on the 1st postoperative day (POD 1) and 6 mg (≈1 standard rescue dosage) on the 2nd and 3rd postoperative days (POD 2) and (POD 3), compared to placebo ( Figure 3 ). 3.2.

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