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Onset of action refers to the time it takes for a drug or treatment to begin producing its desired effects. It is an important consideration in medicine and healthcare as it helps determine the timing and effectiveness of various interventions. In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the concept of onset of action, exploring its ...
Understanding of the onset, magnitude and duration of drug effects that results from a given dose or dosing regimen is a central tenet of both clinical pharmacology and PKPD modelling. PKPD models provide an important framework by which we can learn about the time course of drug effects and best optimize the use of drugs in the clinic.
- Daniel F. B. Wright, Helen R. Winter, Stephen B. Duffull
- 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2011.03925.x
- 2011
- 2011/06
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Sep 3, 2019 · The time between onset and termination is the length of time that that medication is going to at least have some pharmacological action. This line represents a whole pharmacokinetic aspect of what happens when a single dose of a medicine is given. You see on the left hand side plasma concentrations and on the bottom against time.
onset of action. Share button. Updated on 04/19/2018. the point at which the activity of a drug is apparent, generally measured in terms of the time elapsed between ...
- 1 Pharmacokinetic Parameters and Blood Drug Profile
- 2 Multiple-Dose Regimen
- 3 Apparent Volume of Distribution Or Volume of Distribution
- 4 Steady-State Plasma Concentration of Drug
- 5 Drug Accumulation Factor
- 6 Krüger-Thiemer’S “Pharmacokinetic Factor”
- 7 Krüger-Thiemer Dose Ratio
- 8 Concept of A Loading Dose
(Concept of Cmax, Tmax, bioavailability, area under the curve (AUC), following intravenous bolus injection and infusion, therapeutic window, minimum effective concentration, maximum safe drug level/toxic concentration, lag time, onset of action, duration of action, first- and zero-order kinetics, biological half-life of drug) The blood level of a d...
(Equations for determination of the minimum and maximum plasma drug concentrations in a multiple-dose regimen) In a multiple-dose regimen (when several doses of the same drug is given to a patient where each dose is given with a definite time gap, e.g., prolonged treatment of a patient with an antihypertensive drug/an antidiabetic drug, use of anti...
The volume of drug distribution is more popularly known as the apparent volume of distribution of the drug in the body and is denoted by vd. The volume of drug distribution is a measure of the extent of drug distribution in the body. It is estimated by determining the resulting plasma concentration immediately when the drug is administered by rapid...
We have already seen above that the maximum and minimum plasma drug concentrations increase in the subsequent doses upon administering each dose in a multiple-dosage regimen. But if the doses are continued to administer at the correct dose intervals, the maximum and minimum plasma drug concentrations approach to constant levels at a particular time...
In a multiple-dosage regimen, accumulation of a drug in the body is usually expected. This excess drug accumulation in the body (Krüger-Thiemer 1968) often results in side effects and many unwanted harmful effects in a patient. The drug accumulation factormay be defined as a ratio of the steady-state plasma concentration of a drug to the average dr...
Ekkehard Krüger-Thiemer established an equation of proportional relationship between the necessary effective drug concentration to the minimum inhibitory drug concentration at the equilibrium, that is, at the steady-state drug level. The proportionality constant is called Krüger-Thiemer’s “factor” or Krüger-Thiemer’s “pharmacokinetic factor.” It is...
In a multiple-dose regimen, the Krüger-Thiemer dose ratio (Krüger-Thiemer 1960; Krüger-Thiemer and Bunger 1965–1966) provides us with the concept of the loading dose. Krüger-Thiemer dose ratio is the ratio of a loading dose (x∗) to the maintenance dose (x0) of a drug. Thus, it is used to calculate the loading dose. Krüger-Thiemer dose ratio is \\( \\...
In the case of a severe infection or acute or severe health crisis, a high initial non-toxic dose of a drug is administered to control the progress of the disease quickly. It is then followed by the administration of maintenance dose (usual dose) of the drug to control the disease further. A loading dose is the sufficiently high first dose selected...
- Biswajit Mukherjee
Abstract. Onset of action has become one of the most topical issues in antidepressant therapy. In general, the speed of onset of action of antidepressants is regarded as too slow. Most patients who benefit from treatment require 2 or more weeks of therapy to show signs of response. Since the onset of therapeutic efficacy is of current interest ...
Aug 28, 2023 · Diazepam is a benzodiazepine medication that is FDA approved for the management of anxiety disorders, short-term relief of anxiety symptoms, spasticity associated with upper motor neuron disorders, adjunct therapy for muscle spasms, preoperative anxiety relief, management of certain refractory epilepsy patients, and adjunct in severe recurrent convulsive seizures, and an adjunct in status ...
