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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2023

Cefepime Population Pharmacokinetics, Antibacterial Target Attainment, and Estimated Probability of Neurotoxicity in Critically Ill Patients.

Muhammad Bilal, Michael Zoller, Uwe Fuhr, Ulrich Jaehde, Sami Ullah, Uwe Liebchen, Sören Büsker, Johannes Zander, Baharak Babouee Flury, Max Taubert

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Muhammad BilalUniversity of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Center for Pharmacology, Department I of Pharmacology, Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2598-5243
Michael ZollerDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Uwe FuhrUniversity of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Center for Pharmacology, Department I of Pharmacology, Cologne, Germany.
Ulrich JaehdeDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Sami UllahUniversity of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Center for Pharmacology, Department I of Pharmacology, Cologne, Germany.
Uwe LiebchenDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4375-0923
Sören BüskerUniversity of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Center for Pharmacology, Department I of Pharmacology, Cologne, Germany.
Johannes ZanderLaboratory of Dr. Brunner, Constance, Germany.
Baharak Babouee FluryDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8966-5882
Max TaubertUniversity of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Center for Pharmacology, Department I of Pharmacology, Cologne, Germany.
University of Cologne · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DEUniversity of Bonn · DEKantonsspital St. Gallen · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cefepime has been reported to cause concentration-related neurotoxicity, especially in critically ill patients with renal failure. This evaluation aimed to identify a dosing regimen providing a sufficient probability of target attainment (PTA) and the lowest justifiable risk of neurotoxicity in critically ill patients. A population pharmacokinetic model was developed based on plasma concentrations over four consecutive days obtained from 14 intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The patients received a median dose of 2,000 mg cefepime by 30-min intravenous infusions with dosing intervals of every 8 h (q8h) to q24h. A time that the free drug concentration exceeds the MIC over the dosing interval (

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsCritical IllnessCefepimeCreatinineHumansMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMitomycinMonte Carlo MethodProbabilityAnti-Bacterial AgentsCefepimeCreatinineMitomycincefepimeneurotoxicitypopulation pharmacokineticsprobability of target attainment

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PMID37366614
PMCPMC10353438
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