title: Pharmacokinetics - Neonatal Intensive Care Drug Manual
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  Neonatal Intensive Care Drug Manual
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  Pharmacokinetics
  It is primarily excreted via kidneys by glomerular filtration and tubular secretion. Therefore, renal impairment may affect drug elimination. Piperacillin-tazobactam has unreliable CNS penetration and should not used for CNS infections (E.g. meningitis)
  Practice points
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  Piperacillin - tazobactam can be safely used for treatment of non-CNS systemic infections, necrotising enterocolitis and intra-abdominal infections in very low birth weight infants.(13) (LOE IV, GOR B)
  The recommended dose regimen in this formulary is a pragmatic adaptation of the dosing suggested by Cohen-Wolkowiez et al. (3) (LOE IV, GOR B)
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