NCT01872871

The Efficacy of Paracetamol in Reducing Pain During Ophthalmological Examination for Retinopathy of Prematurity: a Prospective Randomised Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Dr. Sami Ulus Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the major morbidity among preterm infants. Although, local anesthetics reduce pain to some extent, eye examination still remains as a painful procedure. The investigators aimed to evaluate the effect of oral paracetamol combined with local anesthetics for pain relief during ophthalmological examination.

Conditions

• Retinopathy of Prematurity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Paracetamol	paracetamol with local anesthetic eye drop versus placebo with local anesthetic eye drops
DRUG	Topical anaesthetic drop with placebo

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-08-01
• Completion: 2014-01-01
• First posted: 2013-06-07
• Last updated: 2013-06-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)