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ANTIBIOTICS-BASEL
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics10060667
Keywords
piperacillin; continuous infusion; therapeutic drug monitoring; dosing software; PK; PD
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Optimizing antibiotic dosing through software-guided empiric dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring can enhance therapeutic exposure of piperacillin in critically ill patients with sepsis and septic shock, leading to improved clinical outcomes and reduced mortality rates.
Optimization of antibiotic dosing is a treatment intervention that is likely to improve outcomes in severe infections. The aim of this retrospective study was to describe the therapeutic exposure of steady state piperacillin concentrations (c(PIP)) and clinical outcome in critically ill patients with sepsis or septic shock who received continuous infusion of piperacillin with dosing personalized through software-guided empiric dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). Therapeutic drug exposure was defined as c(PIP) of 32-64 mg/L (2-4x the 'MIC breakpoint' of Pseudomonas aeruginosa). Of the 1544 patients screened, we included 179 patients (335 serum concentrations), of whom 89% achieved the minimum therapeutic exposure of >32 mg/L and 12% achieved potentially harmful c(PIP) > 96 mg/L within the first 48 h. Therapeutic exposure was achieved in 40% of the patients. Subsequent TDM-guided dose adjustments significantly enhanced therapeutic exposure to 65%, and significantly reduced c(PIP) > 96 mg/L to 5%. Mortality in patients with c(PIP) > 96 mg/L (13/21; 62%) (OR 5.257, 95% CI 1.867-14.802, p = 0.001) or 64-96 mg/L (30/76; 45%) (OR 2.696, 95% CI 1.301-5.586, p = 0.007) was significantly higher compared to patients with therapeutic exposure (17/72; 24%). Given the observed variability in critically ill patients, combining the application of dosing software and consecutive TDM increases therapeutic drug exposure of piperacillin in patients with sepsis and septic shock.
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