Prochlorperazine vs Metoclopramide

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2007-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Migraine headaches are a common reason for patients to present to an emergency department. We are comparing two different medications to see which one is better for patients who present ot an emergency room with a migraine headache.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Montefiore Medical Center
• Collaborators: Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
• Treatments: Metoclopramide; Prochlorperazine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Present to the Ed with an acute migraine headache

Exclusion Criteria:

• secondary headache

• if the patient is to receive a lumbar puncture in the ED

• maximum temperature greater than 100.3 degrees

• new objective neurologic abnormality at the time of physical exam

• allergy or intolerance to a study medication

• pregnancy

• previous enrollment