Is Paracetamol an Effective Treatment for Chronic Moderate Pain in the Newborn After Operative Vaginal Delivery?
CompletedPhase 4NCT00488540
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
There are many reasons for using a vacuum apparatus or forceps to assist in delivering a baby. The traction and pressure on the baby's head due to the vacuum apparatus or forceps may cause pain and discomfort for some time after the delivery. To date, the pain experienced by the newborn and the potential beneficial effects of pain medications after vacuum or forceps deliveries have not been systematically studied. It is possible that administration of paracetamol suppositories to the newborn may be helpful in these situations, since this medication is known to ameliorate pain in older children and adults.
Study details
- Official title
- Is Paracetamol an Effective Treatment for Chronic Moderate Pain in the Newborn After Operative Vaginal Delivery?
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
- Collaborators
- Neonatology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Inselspital Berne; University Hospital, Zürich
- Start date
- 2007-06
- Primary completion
- 2010-03
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 30 Minutes to 1 Hour
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Total sites listed
- 3
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Newborns after vacuum or forceps extraction for paracetamol or placebo * Newborns after vaginal delivery or cesarean section as observational group * Gestational age at or above 35 weeks * Birthweight above 2000g * Signed informed consent of parents Exclusion Criteria: * Multiples * Fetal malformation * Systemic opiates within 24 hours before birth * Ambulatory birth (mother and child leave the hospital a few hours after birth)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00488540