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Optimizing Patient Care. From Bench to Bedside and Back Again. Optimizing Patient Care. From Beside to Bench and Back Again. Day 1. Day 2. Day 3. From bedside to bench to bedside. What's missing?. And back again. So what’s needed to complete the picture? The MIC of the pathogen
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Optimizing Patient Care From Bench to Bedsideand Back Again
Optimizing Patient Care From Beside to Bench and Back Again
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 From bedside to bench to bedside... What's missing?
And back again... • So what’s needed to complete the picture? • The MIC of the pathogen • Sufficient (free) drug level measurements from the patient to estimate PD target attainment(are 2 levels enough? or 1 if giving by continuous infusion)
What’s needed to complete the picture • For agents where the relevant PK/PD parameter is known • Agreement about the PD target values • For agents where the relevant PK/PD parameter is not known • Please work it out! • More drug assays with rapid TAT and software development to PD target attainment estimates (including confidence intervals?) and therefore dosing individualization
What’s also needed... • Better understanding of the variance in MIC measurement • the logarithmic distribution can also have a significant impact • Recognition of natural (placebo) response rate
The MIC is the MIC is the MIC CLSI AST Subcommittee agenda papers June 2004 and 2005
Grepafloxacin in AECBBacteriological Cure 100 90 % probability of bacteriological cure 80 70 60 50 10 100 1000 10000 AUIC 13 Forrest et al., J Antimicrob Chemother.1997.40 (Suppl A):45-57
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