Comparison of the Efficacy of Intravenous Paracetamol and Ibuprofen in the Treatment of Fever Due to Upper Respiratory Tract Infection

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Currently, paracetamol, ibuprofen and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs are widely used by emergency physicians in Turkey for the treatment of fever . The objective of the study is compare the efficacy of intravenous ibuprofen and paracetamol in the treatment of patients with upper respiratory tract infections presenting with fever in the emergency department

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Pamukkale University
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Ibuprofen

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have fever for less than five days

• At least 1 upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) symptom according URTI questionare

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients use anti-pyretic last 4 hours

• To be Pregnancy and breast-feeding Patients of childbearing age who are not using a birth control method

• Patients with an allergy trait (paracetamol and Ibuprofen) Illiterates

• Hemodynamically unstable patients

• Patients with renal transplantation

• Patients with glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency

• Patients with non-controlled hypertension

• Patients with a history of cerebrovascular disease

• Patients with severe liver, kidney,pulmonary and cardiac heart failure

• Patients use antibiotics last 7 days

• Patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome or accompanying arrhythmias associated with conductive stimulus delivery in the heart

• Patients with vision problems