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| Title |
Even high-dose extended infusions may not yield desired concentrations of β-lactams: the value of therapeutic drug monitoring
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| Published in |
Infectious Diseases, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.3109/23744235.2015.1021831 |
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| Authors |
Menino Osbert Cotta, Belinda Gowen, Natasha Truloff, Evan Bursle, Brett McWhinney, Jacobus P.J. Ungerer, Jason A. Roberts, Jeffrey Lipman |
| Abstract |
A 35-year-old patient in intensive care with severe burn injury developed episodes of sepsis. Blood culture yielded a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and treatment was commenced with amikacin (minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) 2-4 mg/L, dose 20 mg/kg adjusted body weight 24-hourly) and meropenem (MIC 8 mg/L, dose 2 g IV 8-hourly and later 6-hourly). Despite the use of extended infusions with β-lactam therapeutic drug monitoring and doses that were more than 2.5 times higher than standard meropenem doses, resistance emerged. This case report describes the application of therapeutic drug monitoring to optimize β-lactam therapy in a difficult-to-treat critically ill patient. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| Canada | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 37 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 37 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 16% |
| Researcher | 6 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 16% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 4 | 11% |
| Unknown | 8 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 41% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 5 | 14% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 8% |
| Unknown | 8 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 May 2016.
All research outputs
#13,627,467
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Outputs from Infectious Diseases
#204
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#123,246
of 260,227 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Infectious Diseases
#7
of 35 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,509,253 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 41st percentile – i.e., 41% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 601 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 35 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.