The Serum Concentration of Vancomycin as a Diagnostic Predictor of Nephrotoxic Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Patients.
Welder ZamonerKarina Zanchetta Cardoso EidLais Maria Bellaver de AlmeidaIsabella Gonçalves PierriAdriano Dos SantosAndré Luis BalbiDaniela PoncePublished in: Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
The results of this study suggest that a narrower range of serum concentration of vancomycin was a predictor of AKI in critically ill septic patients, preceding the diagnosis of AKI by at least 48 h, and it can be a useful monitoring tool when AUC cannot be used.