Conditions: Pain
Keywords: Analgesia
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 88
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
All healthcare providers strive continually to improve the outcome of their treatment approaches. The investigators hypothesize that preventive analgesics administered before a child is sedated with a Demerol-Vistaril regimen will improve the outcome of a sedation.

Detailed description:
To increase outcomes for patients receiving dental sedation by providing significant evidence that the new regimen improves the quality of sedation and results in an improved post sedation ability to eat, drink, resume normal activities and require less additional pain medications.

Arms:
arm 1: an Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen Placebo will be added to a Demerol-Vistaril regimen arm 2: 5 mg/kg ibuprofen + 15 mg/kg acetaminophen will be added to a Demerol-Vistaril regimen

Interventions: intervention 1: oral placebo intervention 2: Oral Analgesics
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Ibuprofen placebo and Acetaminophen placebo will be added to a Demerol-Vistaril regimen intervention 2: Ibuprofen at 5.0 mg/kg and Acetaminophen at 15.0 mg/kg will be added to a Demerol-Vistaril regimen

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