Effectiveness Of Intravenous Dexamethasone On Fascia Iliaca Compartment Block with Bupivacaine As Part Of Postoperative Multimodal Analgesia For An Open Reduction And Internal Fixation Surgery Of Femoral Fracture In Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, South Ethiopia, 2018.

There were statistically significant differences between the groups in time to first analgesia request p-value of =0.003, tramadol, diclofenac and morphine consumption with p-value of, 0.017, 0.036 and 0.046 respectively. Regarding pain severity score a statistical significant differences were found at 6 and 12 hours with p-values of 0.039 and 0.024 respectively while there was no statically significant difference in incidence of postoperative nausea vomiting (p =0.448).