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Pharmacogenomics in the intensive care unit: focus on potential implications for clinical practice.
Recent patents on biotechnology - 1 Jan 2014
Allen John M, Gelot Shyam
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Critically ill patients often are at high-risk for adverse drug reactions (ADRs), mainly due to alterations in pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) parameters. These PK/PD differences in can also lead to inadequate therapeutic response to many commonly used drugs in this patient population. Frequently in the critically ill patient, medications are utilized based on a "trial-and-error" approach....
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