Neonatal And Pedia Pharma Flashcards
Phase 2 reactions
Conjugation: Glucoronidation, sulfation,acetylation
Phase 1. Reactions
Oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis
Drugs that follow zero order kinetics
Phenytoin
Salicylate
Alcohol
Saturation kinetics
Michaelis menten knetics
-in lower doses curve is linear bur somewhere along the line, elimination pathways become saturated and drug conc becomes disproportionate to dose administered
Rlative efficacy and safety profile of a drug
Therapeutic index
Situations that reduce blood flow
CV shock
vasoconstriction
Heart failure
Sick preterm infants
Drugs in which extentof absorption is a determinant of pharmacologic response
Cardiac glycoside
Amino glycoside
Anti-convulsant
Gastric acid secretion reaches adult levels by
Lower limit: 3 mos
GAstric emptying time in neonates
Increased, so if drug is maximally absorbed ins tomach it leads to greater absorption
Gastric eptying time reaches adult values by
6-8 months
Intestinal motility in neonates
Slow and irregular, decreased-> drugs exposed for a longer time to the absorptive surface of the intestine
Complete metabolic activity by flora pproaches adult values by
4 years
Digoxin has increased BA for young children d/t dec bacterial flora
Administrred rectally to avoid first pass effect
Diazepam
Body water composition of neonate , full term, preterm, adult
Neonate: 70-75% of body wt Full term-70% Preterm-85% Adult: 59-60% of body wt Absorption of water soluble drugs: PT>FT>adult
EXtracellular water of neonate and adult
Neonate:40% of body wt
Adult:20% of body wt
Total body fat
Neonate 15% of total body weight
Preterm 1% of total body weight
Neonates protein binding
Decreaed protein binding seen in diazepam, pheytoin, ampicillin, phenobarbital
Drug binding to plasma approaches adult values by
10-12 mos