Optimising meropenem dosing in critically ill Australian Indigenous patients with severe sepsis

D Tsai, P Stewart, R Goud, S Gourley… - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Currently there are no pharmacokinetic (PK) data to guide antibiotic dosing in critically ill
Australian Indigenous patients with severe sepsis. This study aimed to determine whether …

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of meropenem in critically ill patients

R Kitzes-Cohen, D Farin, G Piva… - International journal of …, 2002 - Elsevier
The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of meropenem were investigated in 14
critically ill patients with sepsis. Patients with creatinine clearance (CrCl) higher than 50 …

Experimental verification of the efficacy of optimized two-step infusion therapy with meropenem using an in vitro pharmacodynamic model and Monte Carlo simulation

K Eguchi, K Kanazawa, T Shimizudani… - Journal of infection and …, 2010 - Elsevier
In this study we compared the efficacy of a theoretically optimized two-step infusion therapy
(OTIT; rapid first-step infusion and slow second-step infusion) to the efficacies of prolonged …

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of meropenem in febrile neutropenic patients with bacteremia

RE Ariano, A Nyhlén, JP Donnelly… - Annals of …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
BACKGROUND: Pharmacodynamic investigations with antimicrobials define the
relationship between the infecting organism and achievable drug concentrations with …

Efficacy of meropenem as monotherapy in the treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia

FA Lerma, OBTSIS Group - Journal of chemotherapy, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
We performed a prospective, open label, randomized study in intensive care unit patients
with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) to determine the efficacy and safety of empiric …

Patterns of antimicrobial therapy in severe nosocomial infections: empiric choices, proportion of appropriate therapy, and adaptation rates—a multicentre …

D Vogelaers, D De Bels, F Forêt, S Cran… - International journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
This prospective, observational multicentre (n= 24) study investigated relationships between
antimicrobial choices and rates of empiric appropriate or adequate therapy, and subsequent …

Comparison of the pharmacodynamics of meropenem in healthy volunteers following administration by intermittent infusion or bolus injection

S Jaruratanasirikul, S Sriwiriyajan - Journal of Antimicrobial …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the pharmacokinetics and
pharmacodynamics of meropenem when administered by 3 h infusion or bolus injection …

Optimization of Meropenem Minimum Concentration/MIC Ratio To Suppress In Vitro Resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

VH Tam, AN Schilling, S Neshat, K Poole… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Suppression of resistance in a dense Pseudomonas aeruginosa population has previously
been shown with optimized quinolone exposures. However, the relevance to β-lactams is …

Population pharmacokinetics of meropenem in febrile neutropenic patients in Korea

DG Lee, SM Choi, WS Shin, HO Lah, DS Yim - International journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
Population pharmacokinetic parameters of meropenem in 57 febrile neutropenic patients
and minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) data for clinically isolated Pseudomonas …

Pharmacokinetics of meropenem in critically ill patients receiving continuous venovenous haemofiltration: a randomised controlled trial of continuous infusion versus …

JA Jamal, MB Mat-Nor, FS Mohamad-Nor… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to describe the pharmacokinetics of meropenem,
administered by continuous infusion (CI) or intermittent bolus (IB), in critically ill patients …