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Schmid, Stephan ; Koch, ChiarA ; Zimmermann, Katharina ; Buttenschoen, Jonas ; Mehrl, Alexander ; Pavel, Vlad ; Schlosser-Hupf, Sophie ; Fleischmann, Daniel ; Krohn, Alexander ; Schilling, Tobias ; Müller, Martina ; Kratzer, Alexander

Interprofessional Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Carbapenems Improves ICU Care and Guideline Adherence in Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure

Schmid, Stephan , Koch, ChiarA, Zimmermann, Katharina, Buttenschoen, Jonas, Mehrl, Alexander, Pavel, Vlad , Schlosser-Hupf, Sophie, Fleischmann, Daniel, Krohn, Alexander, Schilling, Tobias, Müller, Martina und Kratzer, Alexander (2023) Interprofessional Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Carbapenems Improves ICU Care and Guideline Adherence in Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure. Antibiotics 12 (12), S. 1730.

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DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.55266


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(1) Background: Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a severe, rapidly progressing disease in patients with liver cirrhosis. Meropenem is crucial for treating severe infections. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) offers an effective means to control drug dosages, especially vital for bactericidal antibiotics like meropenem. We aimed to assess the outcomes of implementing TDM for meropenem ...

(1) Background: Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a severe, rapidly progressing disease in patients with liver cirrhosis. Meropenem is crucial for treating severe infections. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) offers an effective means to control drug dosages, especially vital for bactericidal antibiotics like meropenem. We aimed to assess the outcomes of implementing TDM for meropenem using an innovative interprofessional approach in ACLF patients on a medical intensive care unit (ICU). (2) Methods: The retrospective study was conducted on a medical ICU. The outcomes of an interprofessional approach comprising physicians, hospital pharmacists, and staff nurses to TDM for meropenem in critically ill patients with ACLF were examined in 25 patients. Meropenem was administered continuously via an infusion pump after the application of an initial loading dose. TDM was performed weekly using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Meropenem serum levels, implementation of the recommendations of the interprofessional team, and meropenem consumption were analyzed. (3) Results: Initial TDM for meropenem showed a mean meropenem serum concentration of 20.9 +/- 9.6 mg/L in the 25 analyzed patients. Of note, in the initial TDM, only 16.0% of the patients had meropenem serum concentrations within the respective target range, while 84.0% exceeded this range. Follow-up TDM showed serum concentrations of 15.2 +/- 5.7 mg/L (9.0-24.6) in Week 2 and 11.9 +/- 2.3 mg/L (10.2-13.5) in Week 3. In Week 2, 41.7% of the patients had meropenem serum concentrations that were within the respective target range, while 58.3% of the patients were above this range. In Week 3, 50% of the analyzed serum concentrations of meropenem were within the targeted range, and 50% were above the range. In total, 100% of the advice given by the interprofessional team regarding meropenem dosing or a change in antibiotic therapy was implemented. During the intervention period, the meropenem application density was 37.9 recommended daily doses (RDD)/100 patient days (PD), compared to 42.1 RDD/100 PD in the control period, representing a 10.0% decrease. (4) Conclusions: Our interprofessional approach to TDM significantly reduced meropenem dosing, with all the team's recommendations being implemented. This method not only improved patient safety but also considerably decreased the application density of meropenem.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftAntibiotics
Verlag:MDPI
Ort der Veröffentlichung:BASEL
Band:12
Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels:12
Seitenbereich:S. 1730
Datum14 Dezember 2023
InstitutionenMedizin > Lehrstuhl für Innere Medizin I
Chemie und Pharmazie > Institut für Pharmazie > Lehrstuhl Pharmazeutische Technologie (Prof. Göpferich)
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WertTyp
10.3390/antibiotics12121730DOI
Stichwörter / KeywordsPREDICT; PHARMACOKINETICS; VALIDATION; CIRRHOSIS; SEPSIS; MODEL; SCORE; UNIT; therapeutic drug monitoring; global health; carbapenems; intensive care unit; interprofessional collaboration; acute-on-chronic liver failure
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenJa
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-552660
Dokumenten-ID55266

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