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NCT Number: NCT00434681

Paracetamol Oral Paediatric Suspension at 4.8% : Study of Acceptability and Safety.

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

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Key information

Age range

1 day–8 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Primary location

Sanofi-Aventis

Paris, France

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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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.

Treatment and study plan

paracetamol 4.8% paediatric oral suspension

Drug

Primary outcomes

  1. 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).

  2. 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 outcomes

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

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Sanofi

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

Multicentre, Open, Non-Comparative Study of the Acceptability and Safety of Paracetamol Oral Paediatric Suspension at 4.8%.

Important dates

Study start
2006
Study completion
2007
First posted
Feb 13, 2007
Registry last updated
Jul 21, 2008

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