Efficacy Study of Different Analgesic Options in Kidney Stone Pain Management

Summary

Abdominal pain is one of the most common presentations to an emergency department (ED). Among patients presenting with abdominal pain, a common diagnosis in the Middle East is renal colic (urolithiasis or Kidney stones). As the patients with renal colic writhe around in agonizing pain, the first priority in an ED from a patient's perspective is fast and safe analgesia and to be pain free as early as possible. There are variations in physician preference to choose initial analgesic drug for managing such pain. Commonly used drugs are: * Opioids such as Morphine or Fentanyl * Non steroidal drugs such as Diclofenac, Ketorolac or Brufen * and Paracetamol intravenous injection. A robust evidence in comparison of diclofenac versus morphine and paracetamol is lacking. This study is design to obtain data on efficacy of these three drugs within 30 minutes in a non inferiority trail.

Timeline

Start

2014-08

Primary completion

2015-02

Completion

2015-03

Publications

• Background Grissa MH, Claessens YE, Bouida W, Boubaker H, Boudhib L, Kerkeni W, Boukef R, Nouira S. Paracetamol vs piroxicam to relieve pain in renal colic. Results of a randomized controlled trial. Am J Emerg Med. 2011 Feb;29(2):203-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2009.09.019. Epub 2010 Oct 8.
• Background Behzadnia MJ, Javadzadeh HR, Saboori F. Time of admission, gender and age: challenging factors in emergency renal colic - a preliminary study. Trauma Mon. 2012 Fall;17(3):329-32. doi: 10.5812/traumamon.6800. Epub 2012 Oct 10.
• Background Shaden Salameh; Nurit Hiller; Meir Antopolsky; Fedaa Ghanem; Yigaal Abramovitz; Ruth Stalnikowics. Diclofenac versus Tramadol in the Treatment of Renal Colic: A Prospective, Randomized Trial. The Open Emergency Medicine Journal. 2011; 4: 9-13.
• Pathan SA, Mitra B, Straney LD, Afzal MS, Anjum S, Shukla D, Morley K, Al Hilli SA, Al Rumaihi K, Thomas SH, Cameron PA. Delivering safe and effective analgesia for management of renal colic in the emergency department: a double-blind, multigroup, randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2016 May 14;387(10032):1999-2007. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00652-8. Epub 2016 Mar 16.

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