Results from a multi-center study of hospitalized adults with MRSA bloodstream infections suggest that vancomycin dosing should be guided by the area under the curve, or AUC, not the AUC/MIC ratio, ...

Vancomycin, an antibiotic medication used to treat serious bacterial infections, can lead to increased nephrotoxicity without improved efficacy if administered in an excessive dosage, or can fail to ...

Researchers have developed a population-based pharmacokinetic model to identify target levels for vancomycin treatment so that infants infected with Staphylococcus aureus receive effective therapy.

Background. This study analyzed the relationship between vancomycin area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) and acute kidney injury (AKI) reported across recent studies. Methods. A systematic ...

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DoseMe, a leading provider of precision dosing software for therapeutic drug monitoring and creators of DoseMeRx and DoseMe Analytics, today announced New England Life ...

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DoseMe, a leading provider of model-informed precision dosing (MIPD), today announced Dr. Marc Scheetz, will present, Big data Bayesian truths: no vancomycin trough ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Vancomycin efficacy and its clinical outcomes in hemodialysis (HD) patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia may not be solely based on dose, treatment ...

The patient was a 35-year-old man from São Paulo with mycosis fungoides, cocaine addiction, and diabetes mellitus. He was initially admitted to a psychiatric hospital in November 2011 for depression ...

To investigate the precipitation process of a mixture of vancomycin, amikacin, and dexamethasone by equilibrium dialysis and its subsequent effect on the levels of available-free antibiotics and ...

Background: Vancomycin is administered as antimicrobial prophylaxis to patients undergoing cardiac surgery, an intervention that usually requires cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Previous studies ...