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Table 3.

Recommended dose depending on different patient profiles, defined as the dose yielding a steady-state value closest to 2.5. The last column represents the percentage of time that the corresponding dose is selected over the 1000 Monte-Carlo simulations performed, to take into account the IIV.

Profile Recommended dose (mg) Probability
80 year old man, 60 kg 7.5 17%
80 year old woman, 60 kg 7.5 17%
80 year old man, 50 kg 7.5 16%
80 year old man, 70 kg 10 17%
90 year old man, 60 kg 5 22%
80 year old man, 60 kg, after cardiac surgery 5 24%
80 year old man, 60 kg, given cordarone 5 22%
80 year old man, 60 kg, given deroxat 5 19%
Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2012 May; 91(5): 777–86.
doi: 10.1038/clpt.2011.309.