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Antimicrobial resistance (AR) is a problem that threatens the search for adequate safe and effective antibiotic therapy against multi-resistant bacteria like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) and Clostridium difficile, among others. Daptomycin is the treatment of choice for some infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria, indicated most of the time in patients with special clinical conditions where its high pharmacokinetic variability (PK) does not allow adequate plasma concentrations to be reached. The objective of this review is to describe the data available about the type of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) method used and described so far in hospitalized patients with daptomycin and to describe its impact on therapeutic success, suppression of bacterial resistance, and control of side effects. The need to create worldwide strategies for the appropriate use of antibiotics is clear, and one of these is the performance of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). TDM helps to achieve a dose adjustment and obtain a favorable clinical outcome for patients by measuring plasma concentrations of an administered drug, making a rational interpretation guided by a predefined concentration range, and, thus, adjusting dosages individually.
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En el mundo médico, las decisiones del personal de Unidad de Cuidado Intensivo (UCI), Influyen tanto de manera positiva como negativa en el entorno de un paciente y su familia. El personal de salud que está vinculado al cuidado del paciente en UCI, debe ser capaz de resolver y tomar decisiones que son trascendentales para el futuro de una persona que se encuentra entre la vida y la muerte. A pesar de esta obligación moral y profesional, no existe un consenso ampliamente conocido para la toma de decisiones, que facilite al personal afrontar la situación de un paciente en estado crítico. Razón por la cual la educación universitaria en bioética es de vital Importancia, para la formación de profesionales competentes, libre pensadores con responsabilidad social, que actúen como defensores y promotores de la vida.
In the medical world, decisions of staff of Intensive Care Unit, both in a positive and negative way, may affect the patient's environment and family. The health team in charge of the patient care in critical condition should be, able to make decisions important for the future of someone who is between life and death. Despite this moral and professional duty, there is no consensus widely known for decision-making, to provide the staff means to deal this situation, a patient in critical condition. For that reason bioethics education performs vital importance for the training of competent professionals, thinkers open to social responsibility, acting as defenders and promoters of life.
