Clinical trial NCT05315479
Conditions: Post Operative Pain
Keywords: meloxicam pediatric
Sponsor: Baudax Bio
Start date: 2022-02-24; Completion date: 2022-07-07
Enrollment: 19 participants; Allocation: NA; Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP

Brief summary:
This study is an open-label, multicenter evaluation of Safety and Pharmacokinetics of N1539 in postoperative Pediatric subjects aged 2 to \<17 years.

Detailed description:

Arms: arm 1: N1539 (Meloxicam IV) 0.6 mg/kg (maximum 30 mg) Q24H
Interventions: intervention 1: N1539
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Once daily

Protocol documents:
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