An Evaluation of Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and The Ottawa Hospital’s Gentamicin Dosing Protocol in the Treatment of Bacterial Infections in Neonates

• In: Posters
• At: Dublin (Ireland) (2013)
• Type: Poster
• By: VAILLANCOURT, Régis (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Pharmacy, Ottawa, Canada)
• Co-author(s): Adugu, Delanam (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada)
  Varughese, Nisha (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada)
  Pouliot, Annie (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada)
  Lauzon, Léna (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada)
  Lemyre, Brigitte (The General Hospital, Ottawa, Canada)
  Laframboise, Claire (The General Hospital, Ottawa, Canada)
  
• Abstract:

  
  Rationale:
  Children[simplequote]s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and The Ottawa Hospital designed a gentamicin dosing protocol to provide standardized treatment for bacterial infections in neonates. Audit observations suggested the current protocol may have led to supratherapeutic trough concentrations (troughs >2mg/L) in preterm and hypoxic
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