Ertapenem in critically ill patients with early-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia: pharmacokinetics with special consideration of free-drug concentration
Author(s) -
Olaf Burkhardt,
Vipul Kumar,
D. Katterwe,
J. MajcherPeszynska,
Bernd Drewelow,
Hartmut Derendorf,
Tobias Welte
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkl485
Subject(s) - ertapenem , pharmacokinetics , medicine , population , nonmem , therapeutic drug monitoring , cmax , pneumonia , pharmacology , antibiotics , antibacterial agent , ventilator associated pneumonia , meropenem , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , antibiotic resistance , environmental health
Most information about pharmacokinetics of antimicrobial agents is obtained from studies in healthy volunteers. However, antibiotics are therapeutically used in infected patients with very different pharmacokinetic properties compared with healthy individuals.
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