Ceftriaxone » Empiric therapy » fAUC to MIC ratio

simulate_ceftriaxone_mc_emp_fauc_mic_ratio(
  PATID,
  AGE,
  HEIGHT,
  WEIGHT,
  GENDER,
  CREATININE,
  MODEL,
  MIC,
  AUCPERMIC,
  LOADINGDOSE,
  CRCLCAP,
  REGIMENS
)

Arguments

PATID

Patient Identifier. User-provided free text (such as patient id, name or alias) to identify related simulations. Must be provided as string.

AGE

Age. Age of the patient in years. Must be provided as numeric (min. 18, max. 120 year).

HEIGHT

Height. Height of the patient. Must be provided as numeric (min. 100, max. 250 cm).

WEIGHT

Weight. Actual body weight of the patient. Must be provided as numeric (min. 20, max. 500 kg).

GENDER

Sex. Patient's sex for clinical decision-making. Must be provided as string ('Male' or 'Female').

CREATININE

Creatinine. Serum creatinine. Must be provided as numeric (min. 0.01, max. 15 mg/dL).

MODEL

Model for population of interest. Pharmacokinetic model to be used for specific patient type during simulations. Must be provided as string ('Garot et al. (2011) - ICU, septic patients').

MIC

MIC. Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC). Must be provided as numeric (min. 0.01, max. 1024 mg/L).

AUCPERMIC

AUC to MIC ratio target. The PK/PD target can be provided as 24 hour area under the concentration-time curve to minimum inhibitory concentration ratio (AUC/MIC). Must be provided as numeric (min. 10, max. 2000 ).

LOADINGDOSE

Loading dose. Loading dose is desired or not. Must be provided as string ('No' or 'Yes').

CRCLCAP

Capping Creatinine Clearance. Whether to use capping for creatinine clearance. Must be provided as string ('No cap', '120 ml/min', '130 ml/min', '140 ml/min' or '150 ml/min').

REGIMENS

Dosing Regimens. List of dosing regimens to be used in simulating target attainment, from which the dosing regimen with the smallest absolute difference from the desired target will be automatically selected. Must be provided as list of 1-20 'REGIMEN' values. Use the regimen helper function to define the REGIMEN values.

Details

Drug: Ceftriaxone

Method: Simulate concentrations for multiple dosing regimens and select the optimal one, with regard to the target pharmacodynamic index.

PK/PD target: 24 hour area under the free concentration-time curve to minimum inhibitory concentration ratio.

References

  • Garot, Denis et al. (2011): Population pharmacokinetics of ceftriaxone in critically ill septic patients: a reappraisal. In. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2125.2011.04005.x

Examples

if (FALSE) {
simulate_ceftriaxone_mc_emp_fauc_mic_ratio(PATID = "Anonymous", 
    AGE = 65, HEIGHT = 175, 
    WEIGHT = 75, GENDER = "Male", 
    CREATININE = 1, MODEL = "Garot et al. (2011) - ICU, septic patients", 
    MIC = 1, AUCPERMIC = 125, 
    LOADINGDOSE = "No", 
    CRCLCAP = "No cap", 
    REGIMENS = list(list(
        DOSE = 500, INTERVAL = 12, 
        TINF = 0.5, set = "REGIMEN"), 
        list(DOSE = 500, 
            INTERVAL = 24, 
            TINF = 0.5, 
            set = "REGIMEN"), 
        list(DOSE = 1000, 
            INTERVAL = 12, 
            TINF = 0.5, 
            set = "REGIMEN"), 
        list(DOSE = 1000, 
            INTERVAL = 24, 
            TINF = 0.5, 
            set = "REGIMEN"), 
        list(DOSE = 1500, 
            INTERVAL = 12, 
            TINF = 0.5, 
            set = "REGIMEN"), 
        list(DOSE = 1500, 
            INTERVAL = 24, 
            TINF = 0.5, 
            set = "REGIMEN"), 
        list(DOSE = 2000, 
            INTERVAL = 12, 
            TINF = 0.5, 
            set = "REGIMEN"), 
        list(DOSE = 2000, 
            INTERVAL = 24, 
            TINF = 0.5, 
            set = "REGIMEN")))
}