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A clinical and safety review of paracetamol and ibuprofen in children

The antipyretic analgesics, paracetamol, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents NSAIDs are one of the most widely used classes of medications in children. The aim of this review is to determine if there are any clinically relevant differences in safety between ibuprofen and paracetamol that may...

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Autor principal: Kanabar, Dipak J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5306275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28063133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10787-016-0302-3
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spelling pubmed-53062752017-02-27 A clinical and safety review of paracetamol and ibuprofen in children Kanabar, Dipak J. Inflammopharmacology Review The antipyretic analgesics, paracetamol, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents NSAIDs are one of the most widely used classes of medications in children. The aim of this review is to determine if there are any clinically relevant differences in safety between ibuprofen and paracetamol that may recommend one agent over the other in the management of fever and discomfort in children older than 3 months of age. Springer International Publishing 2017-01-06 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5306275/ /pubmed/28063133 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10787-016-0302-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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