A Randomized Controlled Trial of Prochlorperazine Versus Metoclopramide for Treatment of Acute Migraine

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 399-406

  Friedman, Benjamin W ^a   Esses, David ^a   Solorzano, Clemencia ^b   Dua, Niels ^c   Greenwald, Peter ^c   Radulescu, Radu ^c   Chang, Esther ^c   Hochberg, Michael ^a   Campbell, Caron ^a   Aghera, Amish ^a   Valentin, Tyson ^a   Paternoster, Joseph ^a   Bijur, Polly ^a   Lipton, Richard B ^a   Gallagher, E John ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHENHYDRAMINE; LORAZEPAM; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PROCHLORPERAZINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AKATHISIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; RATING SCALE; RESTLESSNESS; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROCHLORPERAZINE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 52049087583     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.09.027     Document Type: Article

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