In cases of femoral neck fractures, spinal, or epidural block combined techniques are widely preferred anesthesia. However, the position during the application of these techniques causes severe pain. The fascia iliac compartment block and the femoral nerve block are two of the peripheral nerve blocks used to relieve the patient's position pain due to the femur fracture. The purpose of this study is to compare the comfort of the patient with femoral neck fracture, which is applied preoperatively with the ultrasound-guided, femoral or fascial iliaca block while positioning during regional anesthesia. 60 ASA physical status I–III patients aged minimum 60 years inculuded in this study. Fascia iliaca compartment block (FICB) performed with USG in Group-1, USG-assisted femoral nerve blockade in group-2. Sensory block times, before and durin position VAS scores, patient satisfaction and additional sedation recorded.
Complete block time in two groups were 16,2(±3,7) in FICB and 14,8(±3,6) in FNB. In addition, we found that both blocks were effective in reducing the VAS score. Although no statistically significant difference was found, the FNB group found that the satisfaction level of the patients was higher than the other group. 
We conclude that FICB can be used to relieve pain during positioning of the patient in neuroaxial block applications in hip fracture operations similar to FNB, and patients may be satisfied with this situation.

Comparison of two peripheral block methods for position pain in femoral neck fractures