Abstract

A prospective study was carried out in 40 acutely ill patients to compare the non-kinetic and kinetic approaches to individualization of the dosage regimen of gentamicin. The patients were divided into two equal groups. For the non-kinetic group, the doses were derived from the physician's personal experience, on a mg/kg basis, and by use of nomograms. The total daily dose ranged from 1.43 to 4.5 mg/kg. Based on serum concentration measurements, the dosage regimen for individual patient was calculated by Sawchuk-Zaske's method. The calculated doses were compared to the prescribed doses in each patient. Of the patients on empirically prescribed doses 65% received 36% more drug than the calculated dose and 20% received 36% less than the calculated dose. The calculated dosing intervals were greater than the recommended intervals in 60% of the patients. The gentamicin trough concentration was greater than 2 micrograms/ml in 70% of the patients. There was a significant tendency to overdosage of the patients. For the kinetic group, following administration of the calculated dose, the steady-state peak and trough concentrations in each patient were measured. The correlation of measured to predicted steady-state serum concentrations was excellent (r = 0.9968, p less than 0.05). About 85% of the served trough concentrations and 90% of the peak values fell within the therapeutic range. The mean of the prediction error (ME), mean absolute error (MAE), mean squared error (MSE), and root mean squared error (RMSE) of the trough and peak concentrations were calculated. The 95% confidence interval of the ME for the trough and peak concentrations included zero, which shows that the prediction was not significantly biased.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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