Conditions: Postoperative Pain Acute Pain
Keywords: Tonsillectomy Dental surgery Ear surgery Nose surgery Throat surgery
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 86
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
To find out if a drug called tapentadol administered by mouth safely relieves pain in children. Look at the amount of tapentadol in the blood after a single oral dose.

Tapentadol oral solution for children is still being tested and is not yet registered. Tapentadol tablets are effective in treating both acute and chronic pain in adults. This trial will help to understand how tapentadol oral solution works in children.

Detailed description:
The lower age limit for the clinical trial was initially set to 3 years of age in the protocol. The trial planned for the inclusion of participants in three age categories. Age 3 to less than 6 years (young children), age 6 to less than 12 years (older children) and age 12 to less than 18 years of age (adolescents). There was a request by the Paediatric Committee (PDCO) at the European Medicines Agency to include participants 2 years of age (very young children). The protocol amendment thus planned to combine the two youngest age groups into a single reporting group. The protocol amendment only planned that the very young children group would have separate analysis for the Faces Pain Scale Revised (FPS-R) Scale and for the presentation of the serum concentrations, because the pharmacokinetic sampling scheme used in the 2 year old participants was different from the young children group (aged 3 to less than 6 years).

Arms:
arm 1: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Tapentadol
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Tapentadol oral solution single dose (1mg/kg body weight)

Protocol document: