AI Medical Compendium Journal:
The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG

OBJECTIVE: Our primary objective was to determine the utility of procalcitonin (PCT) in detection of bacterial coinfection in children < 5 years admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit with viral lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI).

Aztreonam, a broad-spectrum monobactam, is typically reserved for multidrug resistant (MDR) infections. Pharmacokinetic (PK) data to guide dosing in children, however, are limited to healthy volunteers or nonintensive care unit (ICU) patients. Impair...

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to describe whether tolerance develops in pediatric patients receiving chronic intermittent furosemide therapy, to characterize when it occurs and whether age-related variations exist. The effects of increasin...