Improving care for elderly patients with hip fracture: interdisciplinary collaboration in regional analgesia

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. chenderson@toh.ca.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Carla Y Henderson et al. Can J Anaesth. 2019 Jul.

. 2019 Jul;66(7):845-846.

doi: 10.1007/s12630-019-01362-3. Epub 2019 Apr 8.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. chenderson@toh.ca.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

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Continuous fascia iliaca block for acute hip fractures: a randomized-controlled pilot study.
Loessin V, ElZahabi AJ, Brownbridge B, Bajwa JS. Loessin V, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2019 Oct;66(10):1265-1267. doi: 10.1007/s12630-019-01428-2. Epub 2019 Jun 25. Can J Anaesth. 2019. PMID: 31240611 No abstract available.

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