Overview

Acetaminophen's Efficacy For Post-operative Pain

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2015-01-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
The purpose of this study is to compare IV acetaminophen to oral acetaminophen for pain control in children undergoing tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy.
Phase:
Phase 4
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Kaveh Aslani, MD
Treatments:
Acetaminophen
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

- Children 5-13 years of age

- Surgical procedure: tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy

- American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification 1 and 2 (patients
that have either no systemic illness or mild systemic disease that is well-controlled,
e.g. mild asthma)

Exclusion Criteria:

- Known allergy to study medication(s)

- Known genetic abnormality

- Known hepatitis

- Children with other physical, mental or medical conditions which, in the opinion of
the PI, make study participation inadvisable or impairs pain assessment

- Children who have taken any analgesic within 24 hours prior to surgery

- Enrollment in concurrent research study

- Pregnant patients*

- Students/trainees/staff*

- Mentally disabled/cognitively impaired*