Intravenous Paracetamol as an Antipyretic and Analgesic Medication: the Significance of Drug Metabolism

One prospective, open-label, non-randomized study was conducted in 100 patients to define the antipyretic and analgesic effect of a new intravenous formulation of 1 g of paracetamol; 71 received paracetamol for the management of fever and 29 received paracetamol for pain relief after abdominal surge...

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Main Authors: Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Aikaterini Spyridaki, Athina Savva, Marianna Georgitsi, Thomas Tsaganos, Maria Mouktaroudi, Maria Raftogiannis, Anastasia Antonopoulou, Vassilios Papaziogas, Fotini Baziaka, Kalliopi Sereti, Petros Christopoulos, Androniki Marioli, Theodora Kanni, Panagiota Maravitsa, Ilianna Pantelidou, Konstantinos Leventogiannis, Panagiotis Tsiaoussis, Korina Lymberopoulou, Ioannis M. Koutelidakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Pharmacological Sciences
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1347861319301975