[[Parasetamol]], juga dikenal sebagai asetaminofen atau APAP, adalah obat yang digunakan untuk mengatasi nyeri dan demam.[6] Biasanya digunakan untuk nyeri ringan hingga sedang.[6]<ref name="AHFS2016">{{cite web|title=Acetaminophen|url=https://www.drugs.com/monograph/acetaminophen.html|publisher=The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605063136/http://www.drugs.com/monograph/acetaminophen.html|archive-date=2016-06-05}}</ref> Dalam kombinasi dengan obat nyeri [[opioid]], parasetamol kini digunakan untuk nyeri yang lebih parah seperti [[nyeri kanker]] dan setelah operasipembedahan.[<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url = http://www.sign.ac.uk/pdf/SIGN106.pdf|title = Guideline 106: Control of pain in adults with cancer|author = Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)|publisher = National Health Service (NHS)|location = Scotland|year = 2008|isbn = 9781905813384|chapter = 6.1 and 7].1.1|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101220061154/http://sign.ac.uk/pdf/SIGN106.pdf|archive-date = 2010-12-20}}</ref> Biasanya digunakan melalui mulut atau [[Rektum|rektal]] tetapi juga tersedia secara intravena.[6][8]<ref name="AHFS2016" /><ref name="Hoch2014" /> Efeknya bertahan antara dua danhingga empat jam.[8]<ref name="Hoch2014" /> Parasetamol tergolong analgesik ringan.[8]<ref name="Hoch2014">{{cite book | vauthors = Hochhauser D |title = Cancer and its Management |date=2014 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=9781118468715 |page=119 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=CXjDBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA119 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910083948/https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=CXjDBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA119|archive-date=2017-09-10|author-link=Daniel Hochhauser}}</ref> Parasetamol umumnya aman pada dosis yang dianjurkan.[9]<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Russell FM, Shann F, Curtis N, Mulholland K | title = Evidence on the use of paracetamol in febrile children | journal = Bulletin of the World Health Organization | volume = 81 | issue = 5 | pages = 367–72 | date = 2003 | pmid = 12856055 | pmc = 2572451 }}</ref>
