Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Clinical Pharmacokinetics: Dosing and Monitoring
This course integrates the principles of clinical pharmacokinetics, including factors that affect the absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and binding of drugs, into the process of monitoring, evaluating and adjusting dosing regimens in a patient care setting.
6 weeks, 2 hours per week
Shawn Chen
Professor, School of Pharmacy
Taipei Medical University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify factors that affect the absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and binding of drugs
- Interpret laboratory results, assess clinical findings
- Apply pharmacokinetic concepts in order to determine an individualized dosage regimen for a specific patient
Syllabus
- The fish tank – A simplified model of first-order elimination
- Dosing basics – How to determine the right amount of drug for a patient
- The ups and downs of predicting changes in drug concentration
- The challenges of assessing renal and hepatic clearance
- What pharmacists need to know about dosing aminoglycosides and vancomycin
- Clinical application - vancomycin and gentamycin case practice
Issued on 21st December 2023
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