• Anaesthesia · Oct 1983

    Comparative Study

    Forum. Femoral neck surgery using a local anaesthetic technique.

    • C B Howard, I G Mackie, J Fairclough, and T R Austin.
    • Anaesthesia. 1983 Oct 1;38(10):993-4.

    AbstractThirty cases of femoral sub-capital fractures, Garden grades 1-4, were reduced and internally fixed with crossed Garden screws using femoral nerve block. In addition, sedation and analgesia was provided by low dose ketamine and diazepam. No deaths or other complications occurred in these patients. In a similar group of patients who received spinal analgesia in the same unit under similar conditions there was one death and two cerebrovascular accidents.

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