An applied pharmacokinetic approach to adjusted drug dosing: Part II – pathophysiological states

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applied pharmacokinetics, adjusted drug dosing, pathophysiological states

Abstract

In addition to age, gender, and pregnancy, pathophysiological states such as extremes of body weight, organ dysfunction, and critical illness with sepsis are factors that affect the pharmacokinetics of drugs, thereby necessitating an adjustment of drug dosing.1-5

Author Biography

S Mahomed, University of the Witwatersrand

Department of Anaesthesia, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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2023-11-24

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FCA Refresher Course 2023

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FCA Refresher Course

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