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Trial reportEuropean journal of clinical pharmacology1994

Acrivastine, terfenadine and diphenhydramine effects on driving performance as a function of dose and time after dosing.

J G Ramaekers, J F O'Hanlon

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In one paragraph

Trial report in European journal of clinical pharmacology, 1994. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00916253 (Method of Assessment of Driving Ability in Patients Suffering From Wakefulness Pathologies, Impact of Modafinil Treatment.), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT00916253 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2010, after this paper: background citation

Method of Assessment of Driving Ability in Patients Suffering From Wakefulness Pathologies, Impact of Modafinil Treatment.

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity Hospital, BordeauxRan2010 to 2012Enrolled27ConditionsNarcolepsy, HypersomniaArmsModafinil, Placebo
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 89 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

J G RamaekersInstitute for Human Psychopharmacology, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
J F O'Hanlon
Maastricht University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study was conducted according to a nine-way, observer- and subject-blind, cross-over design. Its purpose was to compare the single-dose effects of the following drugs on driving performance: acrivastine (8, 16 and 24 mg); the combination of acrivastine (8 mg) with pseudoephedrine (60 mg); terfenadine (60, 120 and 180 mg); diphenhydramine-HCl (50 mg); and placebo. The subjects were 18 healthy female volunteers. Drug effects were assessed in two repetitions of two driving tests (highway driving and car-following) after each treatment. Acrivastine's impairing effects in both driving tests were similarly dose-related. The 8-mg dose had a small, but significant, effect on highway driving in the first trial. The 16-mg and 24-mg doses significantly impaired driving in both tests during the first trial and the 24-mg dose did so again during the second trial. Neither the combination of acrivastine with pseudoephedrine nor terfenadine caused any significant impairment of performance. Diphenhydramine significantly impaired driving in both tests during every trial. In conclusion, the normal therapeutic dose of acrivastine (8 mg) had little effect on driving performance, and virtually none when that dose was given in combination with pseudoephedrine (60 mg). Higher doses of acrivastine severely impaired driving performance. Terfenadine had no significant effect on driving performance after any dose while diphenhydramine strongly impaired every important driving parameter.

Indexed as

Automobile DrivingAdministration, OralAdultCross-Over StudiesDiphenhydramineDose-Response Relationship, DrugDrug InteractionsDrug Therapy, CombinationEphedrineFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornMiddle AgedSingle-Blind MethodTerfenadineTriprolidineacrivastineDiphenhydramineEphedrineTerfenadineTriprolidine

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PMID7867679
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