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Abstract The concerns regarding patients with neck femur fractures are mostly old age, side effects from systemic medications, pre and post -operative pain and other complications. Peripheral nerve blocks with continuous catheters have the potential to greatly reduce the morbidity in those patients. The fascia iliaca compartment block is a low - skill, inexpensive method to provide peri - operative analgesia in patients with painful conditions affecting the thigh, the hip joint and/or the femur. While lumbar plexus block is a deep block that is approached posteriorly. It can provide anaesthesia and / or analgesia to the entire distribution of the lumbar plexus. However, the placement of the needle is in the deep muscles with higher potential for complications |