Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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Editorial Comment Letter
Persistent spinal pain syndrome. Reply to Ordia and Vaisman.
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To examine the effectiveness and safety of epidural analgesia in the presurgical period in patients with hip fracture undergoing surgical repair. ⋯ Preoperative epidural analgesia for hip fracture may reduce perioperative cardiac events and deaths, but the number of included studies in this systematic review was low. More research should be done to determine the benefit of early epidural analgesia for patients with hip fracture.