Clinical therapeutics
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Clinical therapeutics · Dec 2012
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyA randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of acetaminophen 1000 mg versus acetaminophen 650 mg for the treatment of postsurgical dental pain.
Although acetaminophen is one of the oldest and most widely used of all analgesic drugs, the incremental benefit of the 1000-mg dose compared with the 650-mg dose has been questioned. ⋯ Acetaminophen 1000 mg provided clinically meaningful and statistically significantly greater efficacy in treating postsurgical dental pain compared with acetaminophen 650 mg and placebo. The outcomes of this study are limited to the single-dose design of this study. ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01115673.
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Clinical therapeutics · Dec 2012
Letter Comparative StudyOutcomes of extended-infusion piperacillin-tazobactam: a retrospective analysis of critically ill patients.
Studies evaluating the outcomes of an extended-infusion (EI) piperacillin-tazobactam dosing strategy in specific cohorts of critically ill patients are lacking. A retrospective, pre-implementation and post-implementation study of 148 critically ill patients was conducted to compare EI and traditional infusion piperacillin-tazobactam. In this retrospective study, the EI piperacillin-tazobactam dosing strategy was associated with improved 30-day mortality. EI piperacillin-tazobactam may be an effective alternative to TI of piperacillin-tazobactam among critically ill patients treated for suspected gram-negative infections.