Conditions: Tonsillectomy
Keywords: Tonsillectomy, Pediatric
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 161
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The hypothesis is that a single, pre-operative dose of intravenous ibuprofen will significantly reduce post-operative fentanyl use compared to placebo.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Intravenous ibuprofen intervention 2: Normal Saline
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Participants will receive a single 10mg/kg dose of intravenous ibuprofen diluted in normal saline at the induction of anesthesia. intervention 2: Participants will receive a comparable weight based volume of normal saline as a placebo comparator at the induction of anesthesia.

Protocol document: