Pharmacokinetic studies in neonates: the utility of an opportunistic sampling design

S Leroux, MA Turner, CBL Guellec, H Hill… - Clinical …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background and Objective The use of an opportunistic (also called scavenged)
sampling strategy in a prospective pharmacokinetic study combined with population …

Population pharmacokinetics of ciprofloxacin in neonates and young infants less than three months of age

W Zhao, H Hill, C Le Guellec, T Neal… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Ciprofloxacin is used in neonates with suspected or documented Gram-negative serious
infections. Currently, its use is off-label partly because of lack of pharmacokinetic studies …

Population pharmacokinetics of metronidazole evaluated using scavenged samples from preterm infants

M Cohen-Wolkowiez, D Ouellet, PB Smith… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pharmacokinetic (PK) studies in preterm infants are rarely conducted due to the research
challenges posed by this population. To overcome these challenges, minimal-risk methods …

Population pharmacokinetics of piperacillin using scavenged samples from preterm infants

M Cohen-Wolkowiez, DK Benjamin Jr… - Therapeutic drug …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Piperacillin is often used in preterm infants for intra-abdominal infections;
however, dosing has been derived from small single-center studies excluding extremely …

Predicting neonatal pharmacokinetics from prior data using population pharmacokinetic modeling

J Wang, AN Edginton, D Avant… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Selection of the first dose for neonates in clinical trials is very challenging. The objective of
this analysis was to assess if a population pharmacokinetic (PK) model developed with data …

Population pharmacokinetics of ciprofloxacin in pediatric patients

P Rajagopalan, MR Gastonguay - The Journal of Clinical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The objective of this study was to characterize ciprofloxacin population pharmacokinetics in
pediatric patients. A total of 150 pediatric patients (including 28 patients with cystic fibrosis …

Barriers and challenges in performing pharmacokinetic studies to inform dosing in the neonatal population

K O'Hara, JH Martin, JJ Schneider - Pharmacy, 2020 - mdpi.com
A number of barriers and challenges must be overcome in order to conduct the
pharmacokinetic studies that are urgently needed to inform the selection and dosing of …

Facilitation of drug evaluation in children by population methods and modelling

M Tod, V Jullien, G Pons - Clinical pharmacokinetics, 2008 - Springer
The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs are different in adult and paediatric
populations, the latter being particularly heterogeneous. These differences in …

Population pharmacokinetics of ciprofloxacin in pediatric and adolescent patients with acute infections

S Payen, R Serreau, A Munck, Y Aujard… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
The aim of the present study was to characterize the population pharmacokinetics of
ciprofloxacin in patients with and without cystic fibrosis ranging in age from 1 day to 24 years …

Drug clearance in neonates: a combination of population pharmacokinetic modelling and machine learning approaches to improve individual prediction

BH Tang, Z Guan, K Allegaert, YE Wu, E Manolis… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Background Population pharmacokinetic evaluations have been widely used in neonatal
pharmacokinetic studies, while machine learning has become a popular approach to solving …