Advice
Following an abbreviated submission.
Paracetamol 500mg/50ml intravenous infusion (Perfalgan) is accepted for use in children weighing less than 33 kg but more than 10kg for the short-term treatment of moderate pain following surgery, and short-term treatment of fever, when administration by the intravenous route is clinically justified.
This updates SMC advice No. 137/04 which covered other patient groups.
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Medicine details
- Medicine name:
- Paracetamol 500mg/50ml intravenous infusion (Perfalgan®)
- SMC ID:
- 172/05
- Indication:
- Short-term treatment of moderate pain following surgery in children
- Pharmaceutical company
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Ltd
- BNF chapter
- Central nervous system
- Submission type
- Abbreviated
- Status
- Accepted
- Date advice published
- 09 May 2005