Intravenous versus oral paracetamol for acute pain in adults in the emergency department setting: a prospective, double-blind, double-dummy, randomised controlled trial.
Jeremy S FurykDeahnne LevasBenjamin CloseKathryn LaspinaMeghan FitzpatrickKelvin RobinsonVenkat N VangavetiRobin RayPublished in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2017)
Overall, there was a small but clinically significant decrease in pain in each group. No superiority was demonstrated in this trial with intravenous paracetamol compared with oral paracetamol in terms of efficacy of analgesia and no difference in length of stay, patient satisfaction, need for rescue analgesia or side effects.
Keyphrases
- pain management
- patient satisfaction
- emergency department
- study protocol
- chronic pain
- postoperative pain
- clinical trial
- high dose
- phase iii
- double blind
- neuropathic pain
- anti inflammatory drugs
- ultrasound guided
- liver failure
- randomized controlled trial
- respiratory failure
- spinal cord
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- mass spectrometry