TY - JOUR T1 - Paracetamol/codeine probably had equivalent analgesia to ibuprofen in children with extremity injuries JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 167 LP - 167 DO - 10.1136/adc.2010.192435 VL - 95 IS - 5 A2 - , Y1 - 2010/10/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/95/5/167.abstract N2 - Design Randomised double-blinded controlled trial. Allocation Concealed (sealed opaque envelopes). Blinding Blinded (patient, parent, investigator and treating physician). Setting Large emergency department in the USA. Patients 68 children and young people, 5–17 years of age (mean age 10.4 years), who presented to the emergency department with a limb injury not requiring immediate treatment and a pain score of at least 5/10. Exclusion criteria included recent use (<6 h) of analgesics, allergy to study medicines, recent use of central nervous system altering substances, non-English language speakers and inability to use the pain scoring tool. Intervention 34 children were assigned to a single dose of ibuprofen (10 mg/kg, maximum 400 mg), and 34 were assigned to paracetamol–codeine (1 … ER -