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Paracetamol Oral Paediatric Suspension at 4.8% : Study of Acceptability and Safety.
This study has been completed.
First Received: February 12, 2007   Last Updated: July 18, 2008   History of Changes
Sponsor: Sanofi-Aventis
Information provided by: Sanofi-Aventis
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00434681
  Purpose

Evaluate the acceptability over 24 hours of a new paracetamol formulation 4.8% paediatric oral suspension in children weighing between 3 and 26 kg including limits


Condition Intervention Phase
Fever
Pain
Drug: paracetamol 4.8% paediatric oral suspension
Phase III

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Non-Randomized, Open Label, Uncontrolled, Single Group Assignment
Official Title: Multicentre, Open, Non-Comparative Study of the Acceptability and Safety of Paracetamol Oral Paediatric Suspension at 4.8%.

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Further study details as provided by Sanofi-Aventis:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Acceptability data: Overall evaluation of the treatment by the child's parents or the minder, measured using a semi-quantitative scale with 4 levels (very acceptable, acceptable, indifferent, refusal), for 24 hours (4 evaluations at 6 hour intervals).
  • Safety data : Events reported by the child, parents or legal guardian during visit 2 ; events compiled in the child's diary ; events recorded by the investigator during Visit 2

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • Acceptability data: Overall evaluation of the child (from 3 years), using a Hedonic Visual Scale during the last administration prior to Visit V2.

Estimated Enrollment: 48
Study Start Date: October 2006
Study Completion Date: April 2007
  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   up to 8 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

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Main criteria are listed hereafter :

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Children of both sexes weighing between 3 and 26 kg including limits.
  • With a fever and/or painful episode justifying a paracetamol treatment for a minimum duration of 24 hours.
  • Likely to be followed throughout the entire study period in out-patient.
  • For whom the informed consent has been signed by the parents or legal guardian and by the child if old enough (see chapter 12.3).

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Presenting digestive disorders, vomiting.
  • Presenting a hypersensitivity to paracetamol or one of the ingredients of the study product
  • Presenting a hepatocellular failure.
  • Presenting a fructose intolerance.
  • Presenting a serious concomitant disease, such as cancer, immune deficiency or a serious renal, hepatic cardiac, neurological, psychiatric or metabolic disease.
  • Presenting a history of significant biological anomalies.
  • Treated with Kayexalate® (sodium polystyrene sulphonate)
  • Not covered by a social security regime.
  • Whose parents are incapable of understanding
  • Who cannot come back to the consultation for the final evaluation and/or submit to the study constraints.
  • Who participated in another clinical study in the 30 days prior to inclusion.
  • Is a relation of the investigator.
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00434681

Locations
France
Sanofi-aventis
Paris, France
Sponsors and Collaborators
Sanofi-Aventis
Investigators
Study Director: Monique COUDERC, Dr Sanofi-Aventis
  More Information

Additional Information:
No publications provided

Study ID Numbers: PARAC_L_00859
Study First Received: February 12, 2007
Last Updated: July 18, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00434681     History of Changes
Health Authority: France: Afssaps - French Health Products Safety Agency

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sensory System Agents
Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
Therapeutic Uses
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Analgesics
Central Nervous System Agents
Pharmacologic Actions
Acetaminophen

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