Local Anaesthetic Infiltration and Indwelling Postoperative Wound Catheters for Patients with Hip Fracture Reduce Death Rates and Length of Stay

Table 4

Opiate requirement for the control group versus the enhanced recovery protocol. Patients with cognitive impairment are excluded.

	Control group	Enhanced recovery period
		ER	LIA only	CATH only
	100	230	49	15
Cumulative mean	49.2 mg	31.8 mg	37.8 mg	46 mg
(Range)	(0–80 mg)	(0–98 mg)	(0–82 mg)	(3–55 mg)