NCT00444808

Analgesic Effect of Intranasal Calcitonin on Patients With Fractured Ribs

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 19 (actual)
• Sponsor: Université de Montréal · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study, which will be conducted at the emergency room of the Sacré-Cœur hospital, requires the recruitment of 60 subjects and involves some telephone follow-up. Calcitonin administered as an intranasal spray is already used to relieve pain caused by broken vertebrae and we seek to determine if it can be as efficient in the case of pain caused by broken ribs.This study aims at testing the hypothesis that subjects suffering from the accidental fracture of one or more ribs will get relief through the intranasal spraying of calcitonin and/or will use less opiate medication for pain relief (a combination of oxycodone chlorhydrate and acetaminophen called Percocet®).

Conditions

• Rib Fractures
• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Intranasal calcitonin

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-02-01
• Completion: 2008-01-01
• First posted: 2007-03-08
• Last updated: 2008-06-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada