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Clinical trial designs and models for analgesic medications for acute pain in neonates, infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents: ACTTION recommendations. Pain 2018 Feb;159(2):193-205

Date

11/16/2017

Pubmed ID

29140927

Pubmed Central ID

PMC5949239

DOI

10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001104

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85044006960 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   18 Citations

Abstract

Clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of analgesics across all pediatric age cohorts are needed to avoid inappropriate extrapolation of adult data to children. However, the selection of acute pain models and trial design attributes to maximize assay sensitivity, by pediatric age cohort, remains problematic. Acute pain models used for drug treatment trials in adults are not directly applicable to the pediatric age cohorts-neonates, infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents. Developmental maturation of metabolic enzymes in infants and children must be taken into consideration when designing trials to test analgesic treatments for acute pain. Assessment tools based on the levels of cognitive maturation and behavioral repertoire must be selected as outcome measures. Models and designs of clinical trials of analgesic medications used in the treatment of acute pain in neonates, infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents were reviewed and discussed at an Analgesic, Anesthetic, and Addiction Clinical Trial Translations, Innovations, Opportunities, and Networks (ACTTION) Pediatric Pain Research Consortium consensus meeting. Based on extensive reviews and continuing discussions, the authors recommend a number of acute pain clinical trial models and design attributes that have the potential to improve the study of analgesic medications in pediatric populations. Recommendations are also provided regarding additional research needed to support the use of other acute pain models across pediatric age cohorts.

Author List

Walco GA, Kopecky EA, Weisman SJ, Stinson J, Stevens B, Desjardins PJ, Berde CB, Krane EJ, Anand KJS, Yaster M, Dampier CD, Dworkin RH, Gilron I, Lynn AM, Maxwell LG, Raja S, Schachtel B, Turk DC

Author

Steven J. Weisman MD Professor in the Anesthesiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Acute Pain
Adolescent
Aging
Analgesics
Child
Child, Preschool
Clinical Trials as Topic
Humans
Infant