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Bryan P White1, Ben Lomaestro1, Manjunath P Pai2.
Abstract
We report on the pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of high-dose (>15 mg/kg of body weight per day) amikacin. A mean (standard deviation [SD]) maximum drug concentration in the serum (Cmax) and 24-h area under the concentration-time curve (AUC24) of 101 (49.4) mg/liter and 600 (387) mg · h/liter, respectively, were observed (n = 73) with 28.0 (8.47) mg/kg/day doses. An initial amikacin dose of 2,500 mg in adults weighing 40 kg to 200 kg with therapeutic drug monitoring to adjust the maintenance dose will optimize its PK and PD.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26282426 PMCID: PMC4604368 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01032-15
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191