Conditions: Traumatic Femur Fracture
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 19
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to prospectively compare post-operative pain relief in pediatric patients undergoing traumatic femur fracture repair who have received either a femoral nerve block with a lateral femoral cutaneous nerve block or a standard anesthetic for analgesia.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Ropivicaine 0.2% with epinephrine 1:200,000 will be used for patients between 10kg and up to 25kg in weight; ropivicaine 0.5% with epinephrine 1:200,000 will be used for patients greater than or equal to 25kg arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Ropivicaine intervention 2: Epinephrine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None intervention 2: None

Protocol document: