Lesson Four:

Pharmacokinetics after single dose administration

Overview:

In this lesson, we describe the pharmacokinetic profiles arising from iv bolus and extravascular single doses of a drug and the kinetics following constant rate intravenous infusion and multiple dosage regimens. This lesson will be carried over into Lesson 5. In Lesson 4 we will consider the events after single dosing.

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Learning objectives:

• Describe the time course of a drug following different modes of administration

• Estimate pharmacokinetic parameters from differing modes of drug administration

Presentations:​

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Tutorial

You can view a pre-recorded tutorial of this lesson here: [ Video ] [ Audio​ ]

Additional Resources:

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Please note that there are several useful resources available on the internet describing these concepts:​​