"Diffusion of innovations": a feasibility study on the pericapsular nerve group block in the emergency department for hip fractures.

Objective: Hip fractures are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks are a safe method to manage pain and decrease opioid usage. The pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block is a novel, potentially superior block because of its motor-sparing effects.

Femoral Neck Fracture with Avascular Necrosis.

Hip fractures are common in the aging population, with complications such as avascular necrosis. We describe a case of an 85-y-old woman with early avascular necrosis as a complication from femoral neck fracture discovered on routine bone densitometry screening.

Phase transitions of n-hexadecane in nanoencapsulated binary solutions of n-hexadecane and 1-octanol.

Binary solutions of n-hexadecane and 1-octanol were encapsulated within poly(tert-butyl methacrylate) nanocapsules and the phase transition behavior of the n-hexadecane studied. A sigmoidal correlation was found between the binary composition of the encapsulated oil and the oil formulation prior to encapsulation. At low 1-octanol fractions in the synthesis, almost no alcohol was encapsulated, but at high 1-octanol fractions, the capsules were enriched in alcohol.