Fundamentals of Pediatric Drug Dosing
Focused on pediatric physiology, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, this book illustrates the differences between the pediatric population and adults; knowledge of extreme importance not only during pediatric drug development but also in
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Fundamentals of Pediatric Drug Dosing
Fundamentals of Pediatric Drug Dosing
Iftekhar Mahmood • Gilbert Burckart Editors
Fundamentals of Pediatric Drug Dosing
Editors Iftekhar Mahmood Clinical Pharmacology/Biopharmaceutics Food & Drug Administration Silver Spring Maryland USA
Gilbert Burckart Clinical Pharmacology Food & Drug Administration, Pediatric Group Silver Spring Maryland USA
ISBN 978-3-319-43752-1 ISBN 978-3-319-43754-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43754-5
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Preface
The fundamentals of pediatric drug dosing are still evolving. While this may sound strange in the twenty-first century, it is a true statement. From 1950 to 1980, a sense of importance of understanding pediatric drug therapy came about, but the ability to apply scientific principles to pediatric drug dosing was impossible. While the science of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics advanced from 1980 to 2000, few investigators attempted to apply these principles to pediatric dosing. From 2000 to the present, due to legislation in the USA and in Europe, we went from essentially zero to well over 1000 pediatric drug development trials that have been conducted and submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration. So many pediatric trials in such a short period of time led to inevitable failures, in some cases failure was due to a poor understanding of drug dosing. But the encouraging development is that we are learning at a rapid pace, and the full attention of many more scientists is now trained on the pediatric patient. The pediatric patient, who ranges from an extreme premature infant weighing 1.0 kg to an adolescent weighing 70–120 kg,
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