An Audit to Evaluate Vancomycin Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Dua'a AlrahahlehSophia XuZhaowen ZhuHassan ToufailiMelissa LuigHannah Yejin KimJan Willem C Alffenaar

Published in: Therapeutic drug monitoring (2022)

This study showed that there is a need for an increase in dose to improve target attainment. There is also a need to explore more effective TDM strategies to increase the proportion of neonatal patients attaining vancomycin target trough concentrations.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
preterm infants