Advantages and issues of concern regarding approaches to peripheral nerve block for total hip arthroplasty

Abstract

In older patients with comorbidities, hip fractures are both an important and debilitating condition. Since multimodal and multidisciplinary perioperativestrategies can hasten functional recovery after surgery improving clinicaloutcomes, the choice of the most effective and safest pathway represents a greatchallenge. A key point of concern is the anesthetic approach and above all thechoice of the locoregional anesthesia combined with general or neuraxialanesthesia