Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
  • Basic pharmacokinetics
  • Half-life, elimination rate, and AUC
  • Intravenous bolus administration, multiple drug administration, and steady-state average concentrations
  • Relationships of pharmacokinetic parameters and intravenous intermittent and continuous infusions
  • Two-compartment models
  • Biopharmaceutics: absorption
  • Drug distribution and protein binding
  • Drug elimination processes
  • Nonlinear processes
  • Pharmacokinetic variation and model-independent relationships
  • Aminoglycosides
  • Vancomycin
  • Theophylline
  • Phenytoin and digoxin.