Duration of low‐dose spinal anaesthesia for hip fracture surgery

A retrospective, observational, single-centre, cohort database analysis of the haemodynamic effects of low-dose spinal anaesthesia for hip fracture surgery

“…Despite the lower dose of spinal bupivacaine used, surgical anaesthesia remained effective for up to 190 min, with only one of 280 patients requiring supplemental local anaesthesia to the upper margin of their surgical skin incision during closure. These data should allay understandable concerns about low-dose spinal bupivacaine methods providing sufficient duration of surgical anaesthesia, 26 , 27 particularly when co-administered with an ultrasound-guided fascia iliaca block.…”