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SUBMITTER: Fleckenstein J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2890651 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fleckenstein Johannes J Kramer Sybille S Offenbächer Martin M Schober Gabriel G Plischke Herbert H Siebeck Matthias M Mussack Thomas T Hatz Rudolf R Lehmeyer Lukas L Lang Philip M PM Heindl Bernhard B Conzen Peter P Irnich Dominik D
Trials 20100527
<h4>Background and objective</h4>Our objective was to report on the design and essentials of the Etoricoxib protocol- Preemptive and Postoperative Analgesia (EPPA) Trial, investigating whether preemptive analgesia with cox-2 inhibitors is more efficacious than placebo in patients who receive either laparotomy or thoracotomy.<h4>Design and methods</h4>The study is a 2 x 2 factorial armed, double blinded, bicentric, randomised placebo-controlled trial comparing (a) etoricoxib and (b) placebo in a ...[more]