title: [Dosage of drugs for cerebrospinal administration].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the most appropriate doses and routes within cerebrospinal - intrathecal, intraventricular, epidural - administration for drugs most commonly used in daily practice as reported in the literature, with particular emphasis on pediatric use.
  
  
  METHODS
  A systematic, sequential, repetitive search of tertiary sources primarily and then primary sources in MEDLINE (Pubmed) and GOOGLE by combining each individual drug name with "intrathecal OR intraventricular OR epidural", and then differentiating between data referring to the pediatric and adult populations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In all, 28 drugs within 5 groups are described: anti-infectious, analgesic, and anti-neoplastic agents, corticoids, and other. Doses are categorized by population type: pediatric (newborns, infants, children) and adult.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The relevance of this administration route and its potential use do not correlate with its scant reporting in the literature, except for anti-infectious, analgesic and cytostatic agents. Only five of these drug types are officially approved for cerebrospinal administration according to their prescribing information (polymyxin B, colistin, cytarabine, baclofen and morphine). Of these, only polymyxin B and colistin are indicated for the whole of the pediatric population.
authors: Servicio de Farmacia, Area Maternoinfantil, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain. ggil@vhebron.net
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Gil Luján
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Clemente Bautista
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Oliveras Arenas
authors: M J
authors: MJ
authors: Cabañas Poy
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Hidalgo Albert
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007268:Injections, Epidural; D007276:Injections, Intraventricular; D007278:Injections, Spinal; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage*
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations