Vancomycin Dosing: It's All About the AUCs

Michael J. Rybak, PharmD, MPH, FCCP, BCPS, a professor of pharmacy at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and an adjunct professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich. He is also the author of the guidelines for vancomycin dosing and monitoring. The new guidelines recommend that patients be dosed based on the area under the curve (AUC). He sat down to talk to us about the new