Does Preventive Analgesia Improve the Outcome of Demerol-Vistaril Procedural Sedations in Pediatric Dentistry

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2016-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

All healthcare providers strive continually to improve the outcome of their treatment approaches. The investigators hypothesize that preventive analgesics administered before a child is sedated with a Demerol-Vistaril regimen will improve the outcome of a sedation.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Analgesics; Hydroxyzine; Ibuprofen; Meperidine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• We intend to enroll 300 children between the ages of 2 - 8 years of all ethnicities for this prospective, placebo controlled, randomized, and double-blind trial. All children that fulfill our general selection criteria for this sedation regimen will be eligible for this study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children who do not meet our general selection criteria for this sedation regimen will be ineligible for this study.