5. Whytdm?
Therapeutic drug monitoring
can guide the clinician to
provide effective & safe drug
therapy in the individual
patient using serum drug
concentration.
8. Monitoringofdrug
therapy:
Monitoring of drug therapy can be done by
Therapeutic outcome using clinical end points
Pharmacodynamic measures using surrogates markers
Pharmacokinetic measures using TDM
10. TDM:Definition
“The clinical laboratory
measurement of chemical
parameter that, with
appropriate medical
interpretation, will directly
influence drug prescribing
procedures by combining
knowledge of pharmaceutics,
pharmacokinetics, &
pharmacodynamics”
11. GOALSOFTDM:
Ensure that given drug dosage produces
Max. therapeutic benefit
Min. toxic adverse effects
Drug-appropriate conc.-site of action-produces benefits
12. TDM:Objectives
Appropriate dosing of drug
Chances of drug toxicity
Economic convenience
Reduce patient variability
Accumulation of drug in body
Dose-response relationship
13. Sourcesofvariability
indrugresponse:
Pharmacokinetic variability- variation in dose & plasma conc.
Pharmacodynamic variability- variation in drug conc. at receptor
level & response
• Bioavailability
• Plasma protein binding
• Volume of distribution
• Clearance
Pharmacokinetic
variables
• Genetic polymorphism
• Enzyme inhibitors
• Enzyme inducers
• Drug interactions
• Drug tolerance
Pharmacodynamic
variables
14. Therapeutic
range/window:
“Conc. range of drug in plasma where drug has been shown to be
efficacious without causing toxic effects in most people”
Min. Effective Conc. (MEC)
Max. Therapeutic Conc./ Minimum Toxic Conc. (MTC)
24. Indications for
Therapeutic
Drug
Monitoring:
Low therapeutic index
Poorly defined clinical end point
Drugs with saturable metabolism
Drugs having wide distribution in the body
Wide variation in the metabolism of drugs
Major organ failure
Prevention of adverse drug effects
Suspected toxicity
Inadequate therapeutic response (Therapeutic failure)
25. Indications for
Therapeutic
Drug
Monitoring:
Compliance concerns (non compliance) e.g.
in epileptics
Dosage change
Change in patient’s clinical state
Change in co-medications (quinidine
decreases digoxin clearance)
Manifestations of toxicity and disease state
are similar (Nausea & vomiting occur in both
digitalis toxicity & congestive heart failure)
29. Pathological
factors
affecting the
TDM
Diseases cause individual variation in drug response
Factors
Renal failure
Liver failure
Diarrhea
Vomiting
inflammatory
bowl disease
GIT diseases
Inflammation
30. Others
factors
affecting
theTDM
Patient’s demographic
Dosage regimen and duration of therapy
Alcohol and tobacco use
Medicine or sampling errors
Laboratory errors
Patient compliance
Individual capacity to distribute, metabolize and discrete the drug
Altered protein binding
33. Refrences:
Burton, M. E. (2006). Applied pharmacokinetics &
pharmacodynamics: principles of therapeutic drug monitoring,
LippincottWilliams &Wilkins.
Rousselot, P., et al. (2015). Personalized daily doses of imatinib by
therapeutic drug monitoring increase the rates of molecular
responses in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. Final results
of the randomized OPTIM imatinib study, American Society of
HematologyWashington, DC.
Soola,A. H., et al. (2022). "Evaluation of the factors affecting
triage decision-making among emergency department nurses and
emergency medical technicians in Iran: a study based on Benner’s
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36. Introduction
The analytical
methodology employed
should ideally:
– distinguish between
compounds of similar
structure
– unchanged drug and
metabolites
– detect small amounts –
be simple enough to use as
a routine assay
– be unaffected by other
drugs administered
simultaneously
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39. Free drug
monitoring:
Development of new filtration devices:
(equilibrium dialysis, ultrafiltration, ultracentrifugation) has
made it possible to measure free unbound drug levels in
serum.
– Advantage:
The free concentration is independent of changes in plasma
binding and is the pharmacologically active concentration.
– Disadvantage:
It is time consuming, expensive and therapeutic ranges do not
yet exist for many drugs.
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40. Tdm 40
Samples:
Plasma or Serum is used for drug assays:
• Whole blood:
used for drugs such as cyclosporin, tacrolimus,
sirolimus
42. Guidelines
for
sampling
time:
• Short half life drugs:
– pre dose sampling
• Long half life drugs:
– at any point in the dosing interval
• One vs Two samples
Drugs with a short half-life: peak and trough
concentrations will be very different from one another –
both samples to be obtained
Peak and trough concentrations will not differ
substantially for drugs whose half-life is much longer
than the dosing interval – single sample is sufficient •
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43. Timing of
Sample
Collection:
The timing of blood collection is an important part of
therapeutic drug monitoring
Blood sample should be collected once the drug
concentration have attained steady state.
Absorption is variable after oral drug administration
and blood samples should be collected in elimination
phase rather than absorption / distribution phases.
• Trough conc : – when a drug is administered by
multiple oral doses, commonly used for anti-convulsant
drugs – should be obtained just prior to the next dose at
steady-state conditions
• Peak conc. : – useful for some antibiotics given IV –
Peak should be determined after drug absorption
(generally 2-4 hours for oral administration, 0.5-1 hour
for IM, SC route)
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44. Clinical
Interpretati
on For
therapeutic
drug
monitoring
The information required to allow interpretation of the
result should include:-
• Patient -Age, weight, sex, height, smoker status
• Clinical – clinical status (renal -serum creatinine; cardiac
-cardiac output; liver function etc.
• Other drug therapy
• Relevant disease states
• Time of the sample collection
• Time of the last dose
• Dosage regimen
• Indication for drug monitoring e.g. .lack of effect,
routine monitoring, suspected toxicity
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45. DRUG IN
SERUMCONC:
Lower than anticipated:
• Patient non compliance
• Error in dosage regimen
• Rapid elimination
• Timing of sample
• Steady state not reached
• Change in hepatic blood
flow
• Induction of
metabolizing enzymes
• Poor bioavailability
• Increased plasma
protein binding
• Enlarged apparent
volume of distribution
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Higher than anticipated:
• Error in dosage regimen
• Increased bioavailability
(hepatic disease)
• Slow elimination
• Inhibition of metabolizing
enzymes
• Decreased plasma protein
46. HowCAN we
make drug
monitoring
easier…
MOST APPROPRIATE SAMPLE:
Urine is the most commonly used
specimen for drug testing because of
ease of collection.Other advantages to
using urine for drug testing are the
relatively high concentrations of many
drugs and metabolites in urine
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FAVORABLE
ANALYTICAL METHOD:
chromatographic methods such as
liquid chromatography–tandem mass
chromatography is the ability to
simultaneously analyze multiple drugs
in a single assay and methods typically
provide higher specificity for
identification of the drug.
48. TDM: Clinical
Applications
To confirm adequate serum concentrations where
clinical response is inadequate: TDM can be used
to assess the appropriateness of dosing regimen to
maintain the minimum concentration required to
exhibit efficacy
To avoid drug toxicity: maintaining within
therapeutic range
To individualize dosing of some drug with an
unpredictable dose-response curve.
To assess medical compliance
To help predict a patient dose requirements
49. TDM: Clinical
Interpretation
Patient- Age, weight, sex, height, smoker
status
Clinical Status
Other drug therapy
Time of sample collection
Time of last dose
Dosage Regimen
55. TDM:
Problems
Physician sometime do not understand the
principles, benefits and limitations of
TDM services
Inappropriate Sampling Time
Do not state the indication of TDM
Insufficient Patient history and other
necessity data
58. How to design
a study to
evaluate
therapeutic
drug
monitoring in
infection
disease
59.
60. Limitations
Interference from other drugs
Lack of training and skills
Cost involved
Individual variability
Analytical variability
Timing of samples
Limited availability
Clinical expertise
61. Conclusion
Therapeutic drug monitoring is required for a small fraction of
drugs used in pharmacotherapy,but for these drugs such
monitoring is essential in order to achieve maximum efficacy of
the drug as well as to avoid drug toxicity.