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Medicines for children and gentamicin toxicity
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Editor,—Recently, we changed our gentamicin dosing regimen (2.5 mg/kg 18 hourly for preterms and 2.5 mg/kg 12 hourly for term infants) as it resulted in too many low peak blood levels. Levels were taken immediately before and 1 hour after the third dose. We changed to the regimen given in Medicines for Children (MFC)1 shown in table 1 .
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However, after …