Comparison of MEOPA + Paracetamol Versus Morphine Treatment in Acute Coronary Syndrome Analgesia.

Summary

In the management of acute coronary syndromes with ST-segment elevation (STEMI), early analgesia reduces the effects of hyperadrenalism which increases the size of myocardial infarction. In order to reduce pain intensity, the recommendations advocate emergency use of morphine. In STEMI patients, other analgesic treatments could provide analgesia that is at least as effective as morphine. The equimolar oxygen/nitrous oxide mixture (MEOPA) is widely used in emergency medicine and has minor secondary effects that are very rapidly reversible when inhalation is discontinued. Used in association with paracetamol, it could be an at least equally effective alternative to the use of morphine.

Timeline

Start

2014-11

Primary completion

2017-01

Completion

2017-01

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper The primary endpoint occurred in 51.7% of the NOO-A group and 73.6% of the morphine group PMID 32398160 ↗

paper Analgesia provided by NOO-A was inferior to morphine at 30 min in patients with acute STEMI in the prehospital setting. PMID 32398160 ↗

Publications

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• Background Canadian Cardiovascular Society; American Academy of Family Physicians; American College of Cardiology; American Heart Association; Antman EM, Hand M, Armstrong PW, Bates ER, Green LA, Halasyamani LK, Hochman JS, Krumholz HM, Lamas GA, Mullany CJ, Pearle DL, Sloan MA, Smith SC Jr, Anbe DT, Kushner FG, Ornato JP, Pearle DL, Sloan MA, Jacobs AK, Adams CD, Anderson JL, Buller CE, Creager MA, Ettinger SM, Halperin JL, Hunt SA, Lytle BW, Nishimura R, Page RL, Riegel B, Tarkington LG, Yancy CW. 2007 focused update of the ACC/AHA 2004 guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008 Jan 15;51(2):210-47. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.10.001. No abstract available.
• Charpentier S, Galinski M, Bounes V, Ricard-Hibon A, El-Khoury C, Elbaz M, Ageron FX, Manzo-Silberman S, Soulat L, Lapostolle F, Gerard A, Bregeaud D, Bongard V, Bonnefoy-Cudraz E; SCADOL II investigators. Nitrous oxide/oxygen plus acetaminophen versus morphine in ST elevation myocardial infarction: open-label, cluster-randomized, non-inferiority study. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2020 May 12;28(1):36. doi: 10.1186/s13049-020-00731-y.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Acetaminophen	Small molecule	1 g	Intravenous
Subject	MEOPA	Other / unclassified	—	Inhaled
Comparator	Morphine	Other / unclassified	2 mg	Intravenous

Indications