Is locoregional anesthesia for hip fracture a valid third option for high-risk patients?

Marco Giudice; Riccardo Pulitanò; Enrico Di Sabatino; Francesca La Verde

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Is locoregional anesthesia for hip fracture a valid third option for high-risk patients?

Marco Giudice

¹

,

Riccardo Pulitanò

¹

,

Enrico Di Sabatino

¹

,

Francesca La Verde

²

Unit of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Addolorata, Rome, Italy
Unit of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Management, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy

Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther 2024; 56, 5: 325–326

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ait.2024.146746

Online publish date: 2025/01/17

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Is locoregional anesthesia for hip fracture a valid third option for high-risk patients?

Marco Giudice 1 , Riccardo Pulitanò 1 , Enrico Di Sabatino 1 , Francesca La Verde 2

Marco Giudice

¹

,

Riccardo Pulitanò

¹

,

Enrico Di Sabatino

¹

,

Francesca La Verde

²