Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Question 1

What is the therapeutic range?

Answer 1

Dosage range/plasma concentration usually used to achieve a therapeutic effect

Question 2

What is the significance of a narrow therapeutic range?

Answer 2

Drugs that are affected by small plasma concentration fluctuations = lead to therapeutic failure

Question 3

Give examples of drugs with narrow therapeutic ranges

Answer 3

Digoxin

Warfarin