Giving vancomycin as a continuous infusion

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Embleton, Nicholas D ^a   Berrington, J ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LETTER; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 67650032596     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2008.152322     Document Type: Letter

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