Single dose intravenous paracetamol or intravenous propacetamol for postoperative pain
Amanda Stott Lecturer in nursing, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia, and member of the Cochrane Nursing Care Field
Summary statement
The mission of the Cochrane Nursing Care Field (CNCF) is to improve health outcomes through increasing the use of the Cochrane Library and supporting Cochrane’s role by providing an evidence base for nurses and healthcare professionals who deliver, lead or research nursing care. The CNCF produces Cochrane Corner columns, summaries of recent nursing-care-relevant Cochrane Reviews that are regularly published in collaborating nursing-related journals. Information on the processes CNCF has developed can be accessed at: cncf.cochrane.org/evidence-transfer-program-review-summaries. This is a Cochrane review summary of: McNicol ED, Ferguson MC, Haroutounian S et al (2016) Single dose intravenous propacetamol or intravenous paracetamol for postoperative pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Issue 10. CD007126. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007126.pub3.
Nursing Standard.
31, 48, 42-43.
doi: 10.7748/ns.2017.e10936
Correspondence
AStott@csu.edu.au
Conflict of interest
None declared
Received: 21 June 2017
Accepted: 22 June 2017
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