Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of sequential intravenous and subcutaneous teicoplanin in critically ill patients without vasopressors

Autor: Agnès Barbot, Serge Bouquet, Bertrand Debaene, F. Rayeh, Nicolas Venisse, Olivier Mimoz
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Intensive care medicine. 29(9)
ISSN: 0342-4642
Popis: To compare the pharmacokinetic parameters of sequential intravenous and subcutaneous teicoplanin in the plasma of surgical intensive care unit patients.Prospective, randomized, crossover study in the surgical ICU of a university hospital.Twelve patients with a suspected nosocomial infection, a serum albumin level higher than 10 g/l, body mass index less than 28 kg/m(2), and estimated creatinine clearance higher than 70 ml/min.Teicoplanin was first administered intravenously as a loading dose of 6 mg/kg per 12 h for 48 h and then continued at a daily dose of 6 mg/kg. On the fourth day patients were randomized in two groups according to the order of the pharmacokinetic studies.Serial plasma samples were obtained to measure teicoplanin levels. Compared with a 30-min intravenous infusion the peak concentration of teicoplanin after a 30-min subcutaneous administration occurred later (median 7 h, range 5-18) and was lower (16 micro g/ml, 9-31; vs. 73, 53-106). Despite large and unpredictable interindividual differences no significant differences between subcutaneous and intravenous administration were observed in: trough antibiotic concentrations (10 micro g/ml, 6-24; vs. 9, 5-30), the area under the teicoplanin plasma concentration vs. time curves from 0 to 24 h (AUC(0-24h); 309 micro g/ml per minute, 180-640; vs. 369, 171-955), the proportion of the dosing interval during which the plasma teicoplanin concentration exceeded 10 micro g/ml (96%, 0-100%; vs. 79%, 13-100%), and the ratio of AUC(0-24h) to 10 (77, 45-160; vs. 92, 43-239).In critically ill patients without vasopressors a switch to the subcutaneous teicoplanin after an initial intravenous therapy seems to give comparable pharmacodynamic indexes of therapeutic success.
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