Pharmacokinetic model-driven remifentanil administration in the morbidly obese: the 'critical weight' and the 'fictitious height', a possible solution to an unsolved problem?

Clin Pharmacokinet. 2009;48(6):397-8. doi: 10.2165/00003088-200948060-00005.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Congress

MeSH terms

  • Body Height / physiology*
  • Body Mass Index
  • Body Weight / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Italy
  • Models, Biological*
  • Obesity, Morbid / drug therapy
  • Obesity, Morbid / metabolism*
  • Piperidines / administration & dosage
  • Piperidines / pharmacokinetics*
  • Problem Solving*
  • Remifentanil

Substances

  • Piperidines
  • Remifentanil