Preoperative Cardiac Events in Elderly Patients with Hip Fracture Randomized to Epidural or Conventional Analgesia

Abstract

The authors' data indicate that compared with conventional analgesia, early administration of continuous epidural analgesia is associated with a lower incidence of preoperative adverse cardiac events in elderly patients with hip fracture who have or are at risk for coronary artery disease. Preoperative epidural analgesia may be advantageous for this surgical population.