Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Intravenous paracetamol compared to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids for acute pain in emergency departments

  • THE CUTTING EDGE: RESEARCH UPDATE
  • Published:
Internal and Emergency Medicine Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1

Data availability

This is not applicable.

References

  1. Abdolrazaghnejad A, Banaie M, Tavakoli N, Safdari M, Rajabpour-Sanati A (2018) Pain management in the emergency department: a review article on options and methods. PubMed. https://doi.org/10.22114/ajem.v0i0.93

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Qureshi I, Abdulrashid K, Thomas SH, Abdel-Rahman ME, Pathan SA, Harris T (2023) Comparison of intravenous paracetamol (acetaminophen) to intravenously or intramuscularly administered non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or opioids for patients presenting with moderate to severe acute pain conditions to the ED: systematic review and meta-analysis. Emerg Med J 40(7):499–508. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2022-212869

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Shea B, Reeves BC, Wells GA, Thuku M, Hamel C, Moran J, Moher D, Tugwell P, Welch V, Kristjansson E, Henry D (2017) AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both. BMJ. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j4008

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  4. Nelson R, Kittel JA, Mahoui I, Thornberry D, Dunkman A, Sams M, Adler D, Jones CM (2022) Racial differences in treatment among patients with acute headache evaluated in the emergency department and discharged home. Am J Emerg Med 60:45–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2022.05.043

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Dainty KN, Seaton B, Laupacis A, Schull MJ, Vaillancourt S (2017) A qualitative study of emergency physicians’ perspectives on PROMS in the emergency department. BMJ Qual Saf 26(9):714–721. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2016-006012

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Download references

Funding

No funding was received to assist with the preparation of this manuscript.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Medicine, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Cassandra Chisholm & Conné Lategan

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Eddy Lang

Authors
  1. Cassandra Chisholm
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Conné Lategan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Eddy Lang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Contributions

All authors contributed to the manuscript conception. CC and CL performed the appraisal of the article to be reviewed. The first draft of the manuscript was prepared by CC, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. CC created and designed the infographic. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Cassandra Chisholm.

Ethics declarations

Conflicts of interest

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Informed consent

For this type of study formal consent was not required.

Statement of human and animal rights

The authors completed no studies with human or animal participants for the purposes of this article.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Chisholm, C., Lategan, C. & Lang, E. Intravenous paracetamol compared to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids for acute pain in emergency departments. Intern Emerg Med 19, 211–215 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-023-03465-8

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-023-03465-8

Keywords

Search

Navigation