Quinine Loading Dose in Cerebral Malaria *
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 32 (1) , 1-5
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1983.32.1
Abstract
In cerebral malaria, the use of currently recommended doses of intravenous quinine may result in subtherapeutic plasma concentrations during the critical first 24 hours of treatment. A loading dose of quinine (20 mg/kg quinine dihydrochloride, equivalent to 16.7 mg/kg base, infused over 4 hours) proved a rapid and safe method of achieving plasma concentrations above the high minimum inhibitory concentrations for Plasmodium falciparum prevalent in Eastern Thailand.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Quantitative Determination of Quinidine in PlasmaScandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, 1963