Does intravenous paracetamol administration affect body temperature in neonates?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 301-304

  Hopchet, Lynn ^a   Kulo, Aida ^a,b   Rayyan, Maissa ^a   Verbesselt, Rene ^a   Vanhole, Christine ^a   De Hoon, Jan N ^a   Allegaer, Karel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL; PROPACETAMOL; PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INFECTION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PEDIATRICS; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY TEMPERATURE; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951678087     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.203778     Document Type: Article

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