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The use of intravenous ketorolac for the treatment of renal colic in the emergency department.
The use of intravenous ketorolac for the treatment of renal colic in the emergency department.
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The American journal of emergency medicine [Am J Emerg Med] 1993 May; Vol. 11 (3), pp. 197-9. - Publication Year :
- 1993
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Abstract
- The objective of this study was to report the authors' experience using intravenous ketorolac (Syntex Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA) as an analgesic in the treatment of renal colic in a convenience sample at three suburban community hospital emergency departments. Twenty-five patients with renal colic were participants. Pregnant women, patients with a history of renal or hepatic impairment, bleeding diathesis, active peptic ulcer disease, or hypersensitivity to aspirin or nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAID) were excluded. Ketorolac 30 mg administered intravenously during a 1-minute period, and the following parameters were monitored at times 0, 5, 10, 20, 30, and 60 minutes: pain on a scale of 0 to 10, pulse rate, blood pressure, and adverse side effects. A total of 25 patients were included in our series. Initially, they had a median pain score of 9 with an interquartile range of 1. Thereafter, the median pain scores and (interquartile ranges) were 8 (three) at 5 minutes, 5 (four) at 10 minutes, 2 (four) at 20 minutes, 1 (three) at 30 minutes, and 0 (one) at 60 minutes. There were no adverse side effects observed in any patients. Therefore, it can be concluded that intravenous ketorolac is an effective analgesic agent for the control of pain in patients with renal colic.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Analgesics administration & dosage
Emergencies
Humans
Injections, Intravenous
Ketorolac
Kidney Diseases physiopathology
Male
Middle Aged
Pain Measurement
Tolmetin administration & dosage
Tolmetin therapeutic use
Treatment Outcome
Analgesics therapeutic use
Colic drug therapy
Kidney Diseases drug therapy
Tolmetin analogs & derivatives
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0735-6757
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The American journal of emergency medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 8489656
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0735-6757(93)90123-s