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*