Conditions: Fever
Keywords: Pediatric Fever
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 118
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The primary objective of the study is to determine the superiority of a single dose of intravenous ibuprofen compared to acetaminophen for the treatment of fever during the first two hours of treatment.

Detailed description:
The primary objective of the study is to determine the superiority of a single dose of intravenous ibuprofen compared to acetaminophen for the treatment of fever as measured by the area under the change in temperature versus time curve during the first 2 hours of treatment.

Arms:
arm 1: Ibuprofen, 10 mg/kg arm 2: Acetaminophen, 10mg/kg

Interventions: intervention 1: ibuprofen intervention 2: acetaminophen
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Ibuprofen, 10 mg/kg intervention 2: Acetaminophen, 10mg/kg

Protocol document: