Observational studyPediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies2019
A Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis to Study the Effect of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation on Cefepime Disposition in Children.
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- Pharmacokinetics of Commonly Used Antimicrobials in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Systematic Review.Paediatric drugs · 2023Pooled it
- Population Pharmacokinetic Modeling and Target Attainment of Cefepime in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026Trial
- Antimicrobial pharmacokinetics in pediatric patients on kidney replacement therapy: a comprehensive narrative review.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Review
- Urinary Biomarkers and Attainment of Cefepime Therapeutic Targets in Critically Ill Children.The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2025Observational
- Pharmacokinetic Research in Pediatric Extracorporeal Therapies: Current State and Future Directions.Blood purification · 2024Review
- Population pharmacokinetics in critically ill neonates and infants undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a literature review.BMJ paediatrics open · 2022Review
- Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Cefepime.Clinical pharmacokinetics · 2022Review
- β-lactam precision dosing in critically ill children: Current state and knowledge gaps.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Review
- Pharmacokinetics of Antibiotics in Pediatric Intensive Care: Fostering Variability to Attain Precision Medicine.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Population Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Meropenem in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2021Article
- Dose Optimization of Cefpirome Based on Population Pharmacokinetics and Target Attainment during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2020Article
- Development and validation of a volumetric absorptive microsampling- liquid chromatography mass spectrometry method for the analysis of cefepime in human whole blood: Application to pediatric pharmacokinetic study.Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesLimited data exist on the effects of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation on pharmacokinetics of cefepime in critically ill pediatric patients. The objective was to describe cefepime disposition in children treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation using population pharmacokinetic modeling.
designMulticenter, prospective observational study.
settingThe pediatric and cardiac ICUs of six sites of the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network. PATIENTS: Seventeen critically ill children (30 d to < 2 yr old) on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation who received cefepime as standard of care between January 4, 2014, and August 24, 2015, were enrolled.
interventionsNone. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsA pharmacokinetic model was developed to evaluate cefepime disposition differences due to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. A two-compartment model with linear elimination, weight effects on clearance, intercompartmental clearance (Q), central volume of distribution (V1), and peripheral volume of distribution (V2) adequately described the data. The typical value of clearance in this study was 7.1 mL/min (1.9 mL/min/kg) for a patient weighing 5.8 kg. This value decreased by approximately 40% with the addition of renal replacement therapy. The typical value for V1 was 1,170 mL. In the setting of blood transfusions, V1 increased by over two-fold but was reduced with increasing age of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation circuit oxygenator.
conclusionsCefepime clearance was reduced in pediatric patients treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation compared with previously reported values in children not receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The model demonstrated that the age of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation circuit oxygenator is inversely correlated to V1. For free cefepime, only 14 of the 19 doses (74%) demonstrated a fT_minimum inhibitory concentration of 16 mg/L, an appropriate target for the treatment of pseudomonal infections, for greater than 70% of the dosing interval. Pediatric patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation might benefit from the addition of therapeutic drug monitoring of cefepime to assure appropriate dosing.
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