Postoperative Analgesia in Hip Arthroplasty

Postoperative pain and analgesia in hip surgery is an important issue for early mobilization and length of hospital stay. The patient population is usually elderly. Prolonged hospital stay may cause thromboembolic complications due to delayed mobilization, psychiatric conditions such as delirium, and many undesirable conditions caused by pain such as chronicisation of acute pain. There are neuraxial analgesia, regional analgesia and multimodal analgesia regimens that are used together to prevent postoperative pain and to prevent these undesirable conditions caused by pain. Suprainguinal fascia iliaca block and pericapsular nerve group blocks are two of those. With performing these blocks, we will obtain postoperative analgesia and avoid postoperative complications.