Pharmacotherapy in neonates and infants
Marinković, V.
Srpski Arhiv Za Celokupno Lekarstvo 123(Suppl 1): 45-48
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0370-8179 PMID: 18193801 Document Number: 454703
Pharmacotherapy in neonates and infants includes the knowledge of many specific characteristics of this age. Haemodynamic and pharmacokinetic characteristics are coupled not only with intensive development of organs and organ systems, irst of all liver and kidneys, but also the specificity of drugs of pharmacotheray, aiming at acheiving the optimal dosing, either by correction of doses, or by increasing the time interval between the doses, or both... This helps in decreasing the time risk of early of delayed complications due to overdosing, but also helps in decreasing the unnecessary financial burden.