Effectiveness of Vancomycin Loading Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2012-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The goal of tish clinical research study is to identify that loading of vancomycin can facilitate rapid attainment of target trough serum vancomycin concentration.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Samsung Medical Center
• Treatments: Vancomycin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Admission to Samsung Medical Center MICU and general wards for infectious diseases and hematology division

• Patients with SIRS (systemic inflammatory response syndrome)

• Intravenous vancomycin therapy deemed necessary

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age less than 20 years

• Age more than 75 years

• Current renal insufficiency defined as estimated Glomerular filtration rate < 50mg/min/1.73 m2 by MDRD equation

• History of adverse events to vancomycin 5. Pregnant woman