In
pharmacokinetics
Pharmacokinetics (from Ancient Greek ''pharmakon'' "drug" and ''kinetikos'' "moving, putting in motion"; see chemical kinetics), sometimes abbreviated as PK, is a branch of pharmacology dedicated to determining the fate of substances administered ...
, the rate of infusion (or dosing rate) refers not just to the rate at which a drug is administered, but the desired rate at which a drug ''should'' be administered to achieve a steady state of a fixed dose which has been demonstrated to be therapeutically effective.
Abbreviations include K
in,
K
0,
or R
0.
It can be calculated as the
steady-state concentration in the plasma multiplied by the
clearance:
References
Pharmacokinetics
Infusion
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