Conditions: Femoral Fractures Pain, Postoperative
Keywords: Femoral Fractures Pediatrics Pain, Postoperative
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 2
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of the use of Marcaine in femoral nerve blocks and hematoma blocks for post operative pain relief for femoral shaft fractures in a pediatric population.

Detailed description:
Children with femur fractures can have severe pain after elastic nail fixation. The current national standard for post operative pain control would be intravenous narcotics. In addition to the use of intravenous narcotics, there are two alternative methods used during the surgery in order to potentially decrease the pain post-operatively. These methods are hematoma block or a femoral nerve block. Both are proven safe and effective in children, however little research has been done to look at the effectiveness of these various methods compared to one another.

Arms:
arm 1: this group will only get a pain control anesthesia pump to use for post-operative pain arm 2: this group will be receiving a femoral nerve block during surgery and have a PCA post-operatively arm 3: patient will receive hematoma block during surgery

Interventions: intervention 1: Marcaine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 0.75 cc/kg of 1/4% Marcaine

Protocol document: