Articles: acetaminophen.
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The Journal of pediatrics · Jan 2016
Intravenous Paracetamol Decreases Requirements of Morphine in Very Preterm Infants.
To determine whether intravenous paracetamol therapy is effective in pain therapy in premature infants. ⋯ The need for morphine decreased significantly after the introduction of paracetamol for the VLGA infants.
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The aims of this study were to develop a population pharmacokinetic model for intravenous paracetamol in preterm and term neonates and to assess the generalizability of the model by testing its predictive performance in an external dataset. ⋯ Weight predicted intravenous paracetamol pharmacokinetics in neonates ranging from extreme preterm to full-term gestational status. External evaluation suggested that these findings should be generalizable to other similar patient populations.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Paracetamol sharpens reflection and spatial memory: a double-blind randomized controlled study in healthy volunteers.
Acetaminophen (APAP, paracetamol) mechanism for analgesic and antipyretic outcomes has been largely addressed, but APAP action on cognitive function has not been studied in humans. Animal studies have suggested an improved cognitive performance but the link with analgesic and antipyretic modes of action is incomplete. This study aims at exploring cognitive tests in healthy volunteers in the context of antinociception and temperature regulation. A double-blind randomized controlled study (NCT01390467) was carried out from May 30, 2011 to July 12, 2011. ⋯ This study shows for the first time that APAP sharpens decision making and planning strategy in healthy volunteers and that cognitive performance and antinociception are independent of APAP effect on thermogenesis. We suggest that cognitive performance mirrors the analgesic rather than thermic cascade of events, with possibly a central role for serotonergic and cannabinoid systems that need to be explored further in the context of pain and cognition.