Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Gentamicin: Evaluation of Five Nomograms for Initial Dosing at Al-Amiri Hospital in Kuwait

Yousef Al-Lanqawi,Phillip Capps,Mohamed Abdel-Hamid,Kefaya Abulmalek,Dotun Phillips,Kamal M. Matar,Prem N. Sharma,Anil Thusu

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Gentamicin: Evaluation of Five Nomograms for Initial Dosing at Al-Amiri Hospital in Kuwait

2007

Yousef Al-Lanqawi
Phillip Capps
Mohamed Abdel-Hamid
Kefaya Abulmalek
Dotun Phillips
Kamal M. Matar
Prem N. Sharma
Anil Thusu

Objective: To compare five published nomograms (Thomson guidelines, Mawer nomogram, rule of eights, Hull-Sarubbi table and Dettli method) for calculating the initial gentamicin dosa

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Volume of distribution
Medicine
Therapeutic drug monitoring
Dosing
Intensive care medicine
Gentamicin
Pharmacokinetics
Nomogram

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