The purpose of this study to investigate post-operative pain control in pediatric patients
with closed supracondylar humerus fracture who undergo closed reduction and percutaneous
pinning. Currently, it is standard of care that patients receive a narcotic prescription for
post-operative pain control. All patients will initially be seen in our pediatric urgent care
and recruited at the time of surgery. Patients will be randomized to receiving acetaminophen
and ibuprofen or acetaminophen and oxycodone. Parents will not be blinded to the
acetaminophen but both investigators, parents and the patients will be blinded to the study
drug (ibuprofen or oxycodone). Pain level will be assessed using the Wong-Baker FACES scale
and parents will be asked to fill out a questionnaire regarding their satisfaction with the
surgery and pain control. Parents will also fill out a medication log until the patient no
longer requires pain medication. The duration of participation in the study is approximately
1 week and requires 2 visits (time of recruitment at surgery to 1st post-op visit). This
study is being conducted in hopes of reducing opioid prescription after surgical fixation of
uncomplicated supracondylar humerus fractures if our study can show that patient's pain
levels post-operatively and parent/patient satisfaction are unchanged or improved in the
acetaminophen and ibuprofen arm.