Ketorolac for Moderate to Severe Abdominal Pain in Children
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2022-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
In children and adolescents (older than 6 years in age) who arrive in the pediatric emergency
department because they have been having 5 days or less of abdominal pain (possible
appendicitis), will patients who are treated with ketorolac get just as much pain relief as
those patients treated with morphine?
To answer this research question, we will need a large number of patients in a study. To
ensure we have enough patients, we must include many hospitals in different cities and
provinces in the same study. Before doing this, though, we must first test a smaller version
of the study in our center at McMaster Children's hosptial. The goal of doing this at
McMaster first is to make sure or understand:
1. We can enroll enough people in our study over 1 year
2. We can make sure that all the information we collect from patients is complete and
nothing is missing
3. Reasons behind why people don't want to participate in the study
4. How satisfied patients and their caregivers were with the study