Types of Drugs Monitored

What kinds of drugs do we monitor?

• Think about safety margins
  Example: penicillin G versus gentamicin
• Think of ease of "bioassaying" the drug in the patient, i.e., presence of easily detectable and rapid response
  Example: anticonvulsant versus anesthetic agent
• What if signs of too little and too much drug are similar?
  Example: digoxin
• When interindividual variation is much greater in
  DOSE vs PLASMA CONCENTRATION than in
  PLASMA CONCENTRATION vs EFFECT!